Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 59 (9164 total)
5 online now:
Newest Member: ChatGPT
Post Volume: Total: 916,923 Year: 4,180/9,624 Month: 1,051/974 Week: 10/368 Day: 10/11 Hour: 1/2


EvC Forum ⇒ Science Forums ⇒ Education and Creation/Evolution ⇒

Darwinism, education, materialism's fatal flaw

Thread ▼ Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   Darwinism, education, materialism's fatal flaw
robinrohan
Inactive Member

Normal Thread Display
Message 92 of 278 (171929)
12-28-2004 3:20 PM 		Reply to: Message 88 by Lithodid-Man
12-28-2004 11:15 AM

Re: Just a Brain
Lithodid-Man writes:
​
It might be fair to say that the sense of SELF is an emergent property of this complicated interface but is in no way supernatural.
​
We don't know how it is we have a sense of self. It's a complete mystery. Consciousness is a mystery. To say that a brain is a computer is an unwarranted assumption.
This message is a reply to:
 Message 88 by Lithodid-Man, posted 12-28-2004 11:15 AM Lithodid-Man has not replied
Replies to this message:
 Message 93 by contracycle, posted 12-28-2004 3:52 PM robinrohan has replied
  
robinrohan
Inactive Member

Normal Thread Display
Message 95 of 278 (171939)
12-28-2004 4:00 PM 		Reply to: Message 93 by contracycle
12-28-2004 3:52 PM

Re: Just a Brain
Contracycle writes:
​
Consciousness is not a mystery merely becuase you find it mysterious.
​
You speak of consciousness as though it were a minor little addition that the brain has and that computers do not have--that computers are just like brains--oh, except for this little matter of consciousness.
This message is a reply to:
 Message 93 by contracycle, posted 12-28-2004 3:52 PM contracycle has replied
Replies to this message:
 Message 96 by contracycle, posted 12-28-2004 5:56 PM robinrohan has replied
  
robinrohan
Inactive Member

Normal Thread Display
Message 97 of 278 (171962)
12-28-2004 6:10 PM 		Reply to: Message 96 by contracycle
12-28-2004 5:56 PM

Re: Just a Brain
Contracycle writes:
​
I think the difference ebtween silicon and biological brains is one of quantity, not quality.
​
And your evidence?
This message is a reply to:
 Message 96 by contracycle, posted 12-28-2004 5:56 PM contracycle has not replied
  
Date format: mm-dd-yyyy
Timezone: ET (US)
  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024