(February 3, 2015 at 7:06 am)Riketto Wrote: In this way the brain is in total command according to what i do understand from your statement.You seem to be jumping to conclusions. The brain is never idle. This is a fact. If you required the "I" for the brain to function, you'd be dead, since nearly all of your vital functions are controlled unconsciously. Did you know that we dream every night, even though we may not remember any of those dreams? Where is the "I" when your brain is off in dreamland, fully free of your conscious direction? Who is this other spirit person, rampaging through your defenseless mind night after night, having its way with your psyche while the "I" is nowhere to be found?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould