(September 7, 2010 at 3:33 am)Flobee Wrote:Quote:According to your world view rocks and computers are quite analogous to the human mind because they are all the product of unintelligent physical laws governing matter actually. It is atheist scientists like Steven Pinker who are the ones that compare the human person to a computer not me.(September 6, 2010 at 3:08 pm)Flobee Wrote: Do we have no more control over ourselves then a rock does when falling down a hill, or a computer governed completely by our programming?
Well, you have your mind, of course. I would hope that means something to you. Rocks and computers aren't quite analogous to the human mind, or for that matter, any other intelligent species in the animal kingdom.
Wrong on the computer point. Computers were, of course, created by the human mind, not unintelligent physical laws, but indeed, rocks were. It doesn't matter whatever atheist you present to me who says, "Oh, humans are like computers!" (It may be true to some degree on the ability to compute figures, etc.) I'm sure Pinker was making a point (although in the context you provide, I can't see it unless you give a link), but to compare computer programming with human thought is insufficient, and computers are not at all the result of unintelligent physical laws.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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