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Kirata -> RE: OK, if the soul begins from conception, then what about identical twins? (3/2/2012 3:53:52 AM)
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ORIGINAL: GotSteel
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In this case, one hypothesis says that the operation of the brain is affected in a rather ill-defined way by influences that are not described by the known laws of physics, and that these effects will ultimately help us make sense of human consciousness; the other says that brains are complicated, so it’s no surprise that we don’t understand everything, BUT that an ultimate explanation will fit comfortably within the framework of known fundamental physics. This is not really a close call...
Now there's a hoot. Physics has no explanation for consciousness, BUT we should just have faith that someday it will. And in the always wonderful spirit of priestly conceit, given a choice between faith and reason it's not even "a close call."
The really mind-numbing part of this ecclesiastical rot is the claim it makes for why any other explanation is foolish, namely, that it would mean, "the particular collection of atoms we call the brain obeys different rules than other collections of atoms."
That's not really a very good way to counter the argument that, in actual fact, "the particular collection of atoms we call the brain" obeys precisely the same rules as any other collection of atoms, i.e., the physics of dead matter.
Dead, get it? As in, "not alive." And if it's just dead matter, then there is nothing unreasonable about a suspicion that something more than the known laws of physics might be necessary to explain, well, if not all of us, at least most of us.
K.
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