(November 21, 2014 at 10:10 am)dyresand Wrote:(November 21, 2014 at 10:04 am)Chad32 Wrote: They'd complain that it's wrong because we can't imbue it with a soul. Not that we've even proved souls exist in the first place. We have proved that you can change everything about a person by messing with their brain, but some people insist the real us is our "soul". Whatever that is, wherever that is, and however it's related to our physical bodies.
If there is a way to prove that there is souls and they do exist they might have something but what we are as humans are just electrical impulses and flesh nothing more.
I hate this kind of implied splitting the baby in fairness.
Not only is there no evidence of souls, and not only do we not have evidence for such, with what we currently know about evolutionary biology , human flawed perceptions and projectionism, there is no need to insert such a claim into the gap of what we still have yet to learn about our brains.
We are literally our brains in motion, nothing more. Our personality and our thoughts one can look at like a car with a running engine burning fuel in motion. No engine, no fuel, no motion, no capability of speed. Destroy that structure you will not produce speed. No different than if you were to smash your computer tower and motherboard to unusable parts on top of unplugging it from the wall. It has nothing in tact so it will not work.
The idea of souls and gods are merely primitive gap filling due to our ignorance of scientific reality combined with selection bias and sample rate error.