On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net> wrote:
> The self is subjective and I can think of no way that objective machine > codes and silicon chips could produce that. > That implies that you CAN think of a way that a bunch of cells in your skull squirting out neurotransmitter chemicals can produce subjectivity. What is that way, what vital ingredient does a neurotransmitter chemical in a brain have that a electron in a chip does not have? > The self must be alive and conscious, two functions impossible to > implement on silicon in binary code. > Then silicon is lacking something vital that carbon and hydrogen atoms have. In other words you believe in vitalism. I don't. > Personally I believe that life cannot be created, it simply is/was/and > ever shall be, beyond spacetime > Translated from the original bafflegab: Life does not exist in a place or at a time. And that is clearly incorrect. > So the universe and all life was produced as a thought in the mind of God > If you can't explain how God did this then you really haven't explained anything at all and haven't given God very much to do, He must be infinitely bored. > If you don't like the word God replace it above with supreme monad or > perhaps cosmic mind. > How about replacing it with a big "I don't know". Not knowing is a perfectly respectable state to be in, unlike pretending to explained something when you really have not. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
