RE: If
February 6, 2015 at 8:41 am
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2015 at 8:42 am by Tonus.)
(February 6, 2015 at 8:38 am)Riketto Wrote: Where is your evidence that you are correct?I pointed it out already-- the brain manages a number of biological activities that you do not have to consciously control --such as breathing-- and others that you couldn't possibly control --such as heartbeat. You also dream every night even though you may not even be aware that you had a dream. You are likely not in control of any of your dreams, as evidenced by the fact that most people easily accept even the strangest scenarios when we are dreaming. Even the dreams you remember, you probably joined partway through.
Tell me again how the "I" is doing anything in any of those instances.
I should add that I find it amusing that you, of all people, suddenly don't accept "I said so" as an argument. Perhaps you are making progress after all.
"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