Those two might have something on that self driving pickup, though.
In my drinking days, I’d wake up in the morning and my F-150 would be in the driveway and I’d think, “How in the fuck did we get home?”
I’m sure it’s the same thing.
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In my drinking days, I’d wake up in the morning and my F-150 would be in the driveway and I’d think, “How in the fuck did we get home?”
I’m sure it’s the same thing.
Some things we know: It appears that "intention" actually forms in the brain before the person is aware of the intention. fMRI studies confirm this repeatedly.
Split brain patients presented with visual stimuli independently to each hemisphere of the brain forced the left hemisphere to create, out of whole cloth, reasoning for why the right hemisphere took an action (they were presented different unrelated stimuli in the form of pictures). When the brain is "split" (The corpus collosum is cut) the hemispheres no longer communicate. So the left hemisphere doesn't know what the right does and vice versa. But when presented with a stimulus on the right side that the left had no idea about the left side came up with an explanation for why this happened.
So it looks a LOT like the brain can do a LOT of it without our "soul" being involved or whatever you think drives your mental states.
Split brain patients presented with visual stimuli independently to each hemisphere of the brain forced the left hemisphere to create, out of whole cloth, reasoning for why the right hemisphere took an action (they were presented different unrelated stimuli in the form of pictures). When the brain is "split" (The corpus collosum is cut) the hemispheres no longer communicate. So the left hemisphere doesn't know what the right does and vice versa. But when presented with a stimulus on the right side that the left had no idea about the left side came up with an explanation for why this happened.
So it looks a LOT like the brain can do a LOT of it without our "soul" being involved or whatever you think drives your mental states.
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Angry people, especially over-35 militant atheists, aren't very good at subtlety. Jus' sayin'.
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^^ Frantic Googling and plagiarism without citation.
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A fact poor Perry and his gay friend can never understand.
Perry can't explain it in his own words, so he is reduced to frantic googling and plagiarizing someone else's words.
Dutch Uncle
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That boy ain't right.Perry can't explain it in his own words, so he is reduced to frantic googling and plagiarizing someone else's words.
“Materialism posits that reality is entirely composed of matter. According to this perspective, everything that exists is physical, and all processes, including mental states and consciousness, arise from material interactions.
Physicalism is the view that "everything is physical", that there is "nothing over and above" the physical.
Scientism is a philosophical worldview that asserts that all knowledge about the universe can be obtained solely through scientific inquiry, particularly through the scientific method, which emphasizes empirical evidence and repeatable experiments.”
from Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia
Cited, for sure. But you should probably not go the Google nor any cut and paste criticism. Not a good reflection you.
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^^^^
Defends Perry PhD AKA Perry Penis-Puller from plagiarism against the mean ol' factual agnostic. LOL
I guess militant atheist and other angry Bois need to stick together against the realities of an educated world.
Scientists Don't Know Why Consciousness Exists, And a New Study Proves It
A hard nut to crack
Consciousness is a hard nut to crack. We don't yet know whether it will yield to the current methods of consciousness science, or whether it requires a revolution in our concepts or methods (or perhaps both).
Scientists Don't Know Why Consciousness Exists, And a New Study Proves It
"Theories are like toothbrushes," it's sometimes said.
www.sciencealert.com
^^ Thinks citation is equivalent to plagiarism
Throws a lifesaver to his boyfriend Perry who claims falsely to have a geochemistry PhD.From claiming consciousness has been solved scientifically; to claiming Carl Sagan was an atheist; to getting massively confused about the distinction between observation and explanation, you have been wrong time after time after time on this thread.
You should stop posting on threads discussing science.
Are you sure that school that gave you a chemistry degree was even accredited?
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"Theories are like toothbrushes," it's sometimes said. "Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else's."Scientists Don't Know Why Consciousness Exists, And a New Study Proves It
A hard nut to crack
Consciousness is a hard nut to crack. We don't yet know whether it will yield to the current methods of consciousness science, or whether it requires a revolution in our concepts or methods (or perhaps both).
Scientists Don't Know Why Consciousness Exists, And a New Study Proves It
"Theories are like toothbrushes," it's sometimes said.
LOL That's a good joke. Competing theories of consciousness is good since they'll either prove their theory right or the other theories wrong. It's a form of evolution.
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I wonder if they exchange intimate pictures with each other?
From claiming consciousness has been solved scientifically; to claiming Carl Sagan was an atheist; to getting massively confused about the distinction between observation and explanation, you have been wrong time after time after time on this thread.
You should stop posting on threads discussing science.
Are you sure that school that gave you a chemistry degree was even accredited?
Militant atheists, like their counterparts the Bible-thumpers, are irrational. They only see what they want to see.
Re Carl Sagan, this NPR interview makes some interesting points. Mainly that the religions of the world make God too small. Ergo, Sagan wasn't an atheist. He simply saw ancient religions as being limiting for the creator of the Universe.
I am very interested, and I'd like to add something to my previous answer about Carl and whether or not he was religious. He was religious, but in his view, the traditional religious view of God was too small, with a God of - who made the world; not, perhaps, 400 billion stars in our galaxy alone, with a retinue, each star with a retinue of perhaps a hundred worlds and so many galaxies.
He found that that God was inadequate, and that, I think, one of the reasons he's so important 10 years later and that buildings all over the world are dedicated in his memory, is because he was a kind of - he was imagining a God that would be worthy of the revelations of science - one that would reflect what we know, not one that would be mired in a moment in time thousands of years ago, before we had the ability to interrogate nature.
The funny thing about the article is that most scientists working on consciousness aren't even doing science. Their egos are emotionally committed to their own theory, and they're just looking for data to support it, rather than trying to falsify it.
There was another article in which one major hypothesis about consciousness was called a psuedo-science by other prominent scientists, lol
Yeah, calling Carl Sagan an atheist was one of many flagrant untruths Domer claimed in this thread.
Love is blossoming between Domer and Perry. Can wedding bells be far behind? The funniest thing about Domer's attempt to defend his boyfriend was insinuating my citation of sources in the OP was equivalent to Perry's plagiarism, lol
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It's well above my expertise, but pseudo-science will eventually fall to science. It always has, but sometimes takes awhile.
Still trying to understand consciousness, like the origin of life, is a very interesting area of research. Just as some scientists are trying to create life, creating a synthetic consciousness would be great advancement.
Legally and morally, should a synthetic consciousness have rights? Or would it be a slave to its creator?
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Militant atheists, like all extremists, only see what they want to see and viciously attack anyone who disagrees as this and similar threads prove.
They go well together. Perry needs an older man to look up to and become "close friends" with. Good for them.
The great thinkers, like Sagan and Einstein, never limited themselves to something as dogmatic as militant atheism. Creative people with boundless curiosity like these men never paint themselves into a corner.
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The only militant atheist leaders I've seen all got rich off of bilking dumbasses just like the Televangelists.
FWIW, I've thought about starting a RWNJ TikTok show citing all sorts of wacky shit just for the beer money. RWNJs, like militant atheists, are more easily separated from their money because most are poorly educated and not that smart, or sane, to begin with. LOL