(January 23, 2015 at 1:19 pm)Former Humanist Wrote:(January 23, 2015 at 1:10 pm)robvalue Wrote: You can be atheist and believe everything is made entirely from jelly. Nothing follows logically from atheism.
The abstract things you speak of exist only as configurations within the physical brain, they aren't entities in their own right, nor is there any reason for them to be.
This seems like a strange statement to make ; I thought people were in fact Atheists because of a good level of logic and reason. Can u elaborate on this statement you made please ?
If these things i listed are found in the brain, then where in the brain is the mind found , what part of the brain do we find a thought ? And if part of the brain is missing as the result of a tragic accident yet the person survives , then is the Occupant less of a Person therefore ? We still consider him a full Person don't we ? There is something more to a Human Being than just a compilation of atoms slung together over millions of years and if we are in fact 'just atoms' then why should we believe what anyone says since they would have arrived upon it by accident and from atoms which are untrustworthy ? Humans are made up , it seems, of intrinsic capacity toward logic, reason, deducing, deciphering, et al.
Rob is pointing out that being an atheist doesn't mean you are logical or use reason. There is a correlation between the two but no causation.
Aren't robots nothing more than a specific arrangement of atoms? What if the robots can learn from their environment like we do. Would you then assert that the robots are something more than atoms?
