(January 23, 2015 at 1:29 pm)Surgenator Wrote:(January 23, 2015 at 1:19 pm)Former Humanist Wrote: 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?
A Robot is a creation from an intelligent personal willful source : Man. Man cant infuse the Robot with Mans consciousness...yet we as Human Being have been endowed with this entity called consciousness. How come ? Why ? Why aren't we robotic if accidental compilations of atoms are our cause ? Seems like we should be if Materialism is to be believed.
