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Arguments against Soul
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RE: Arguments against Soul
September 4, 2019 at 7:51 am
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2019 at 7:51 am by onlinebiker.)
(September 3, 2019 at 7:40 pm)Fireball Wrote: Soul It's real. Only thing uglier is a Pontiac Aztec... ...
I used to have a Kia Rio until my ex wife stole it. :-)
I believe in the soul, but my version is that it is mortal and it's that thing you're missing when you're a vegetable. It is the thing that separates you from a rock. In other words, I like it better as a word than consciousness, especially in a love song.
The brain is simply a transceiver. Consciousness is external.
"Pardon him, lady. The heel has no soul." (Moe Howard)
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
Yup: "No evidence my dear" - It really is that simple.
Also no rational basis excepting woo as to how one might even CONCEIVABLY exist, so there's that too. (September 5, 2019 at 7:55 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: The brain is simply a transceiver. Consciousness is external. Can I visit it? I'd love to book a summer getaway to the part of my conciseness that stores all my porn movie memories. Is the 3rd, 4th, 5th or 18th and half eye involved in any way? Quantum?
"For the only way to eternal glory is a life lived in service of our Lord, FSM; Verily it is FSM who is the perfect being the name higher than all names, king of all kings and will bestow upon us all, one day, The great reclaiming" -The Prophet Boiardi-
Conservative trigger warning.
(September 5, 2019 at 7:55 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: The brain is simply a transceiver. Consciousness is external. If this were true then anyone placed in a Faraday cage would immediately fall to the floor unconscious, cabbaged.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
RE: Arguments against Soul
September 5, 2019 at 2:19 pm
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2019 at 2:21 pm by Simon Moon.)
(September 5, 2019 at 7:55 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: The brain is simply a transceiver. Consciousness is external. Yeah, that sure sounds like an unsupported, bald assertion. And given that all demonstrable evidence, so far, has pointed to the fact that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain, you need to provide some awfully compelling demonstrable evidence that says otherwise. Got any? You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence. |
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