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Is Consciousness external to central nervous systems?
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RE: Is Consciousness external to central nervous systems?
You have to make a lot of foundational assumptions that are not justified in any way. He's doing the same thing that the ancients did when they drew cartoon characters on stone and made gods.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me

"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
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RE: Is Consciousness external to central nervous systems? - by SleepingDemon - August 12, 2010 at 11:31 am

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