Lastamender
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These threads amuse because we all going to find out anyway.
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Seems like you are selective in your application of science when the science doesn't suit your worldview.Mankind and live forms existed long before religion or philosophical aspects started to be introduced, "invented".
Religion and Philosophy simply started to replace and furthered caveman's mystical explanations, and believes, some 8000 years ago.
It "was" the inability of modern humans to explain e.g. natural phenomenon's - thus religion (just another word for "unprofessional science") came in, and is entirely based on wild assumptions and foremost "pushing" the unexplainable, onto some GOD aka higher being.
Those that continue to receive aka believe into "religious explanations" - simply ain't into science - respectively have been indoctrinated for millennia by religious organizations to "reject" science, upon threat of sin, burned at the stake, hell, etc.
Today's practiced religions, are nothing else but up-keeping fearmongering towards science - since scientific facts, make religion redundant.
Consciousness is an artifact of being and encompasses the entire being. Think of it as who you are. Same for the soul.And consciousness is the result of brain, body and the environment - causing e.g. respective human reactions
So where does this "soul" come in? it simply doesn't exist.
How do you know that fire hurts? - due to your nerve receptors you feel pain - and your brain instructs you to avoid contact with fire, thus causing your muscles to retract your fingers from a flame. it's simple science.
Same goes for your "good"or "bad" soul belief - factually you brain tells you if you keep aggravating someone, you might get beat up. So your brain and not some "good soul" tells you to stop aggravating someone in order to avoid repercussions - that can result in both physical and physiological reactions from your opposite.
Like I said before, at best you are a Pharisee, at worst you are the serpent in the garden. It seems you would rather work on others than yourself. And your weapon of choice is division.I only can give you these words
1 Corinthians 4: 10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!
Romans 1: 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools.
Like I said before, at best you are a Pharisee, at worst you are the serpent in the garden. It seems you would rather work on others than yourself. And your weapon of choice is division.
I knew there was something we would agree upon.So natural selection confirms that religion is a behavior which led to a functional advantage.
And consciousness is the result of brain, body and the environment -
I'm waiting for the end of the world in 3-2-1....I knew there was something we would agree upon.
I'm waiting for the end of the world in 3-2-1....
sorry bing, the end to the desert is the long sought new beginning for the world - called hope in the 1st century.
Once you are dead, your brain is as well - as such your "consciousness" doesn't exist anymore, therefore you won't find out anything.These threads amuse because we all going to find out anyway.
Go right ahead.I think I'll side with Socrates, Aristotle, Epicurus, Plato, Laozi, Confucius, The Buddha, Aquinas, Maimonides, Descartes, Pascal, Bacon, Hobbs and Locke over you. They philosophize what something is and are famous for it. All you can do is criticize what threatens your worldview and are a nobody for it.
Where "consciousness" comes from, aka where it gets started - I had already statedLet's go a bit deeper. What causes the brain and nerves, heart, etc. to develop? You may say DNA, ribosomes, etc. and you would be correct. However what drives DNA? You see, what I am getting at is one cannot put one's finger on causation so where does consciousness really come from?
You're just making the same.mistake the human race made for 100,000 years.the evidence requires perception -
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the cicadas physiology is transformed from one being to another by its unique spiritual content ...
as evolution itself is similarly evidence that metaphysical physiology requires its unique spiritual content for its regeneration as when removed dissipates into the atmosphere as well the extreme example, disassociation of the spiritual content to its physiology causing extinction.
You just put your finger on the causation.Let's go a bit deeper. What causes the brain and nerves, heart, etc. to develop? You may say DNA, ribosomes, etc. and you would be correct. However what drives DNA? You see, what I am getting at is one cannot put one's finger on causation so where does consciousness really come from?