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I'm not sure what the you're getting at. If you take all the brain cells away (and therefore the brain), will there still be an "awareness"?

Yes, but instead of billiard balls think of chemical reactions, electronic pulses, data processing, feedback loops, the strengthening or weakening of neural pathways, alert triggers (emotions), etc. But all this can happen without the need for a "user". Our brains are just elaborate kettl...

Beingof1, Searching Google and YouTube for "meta-evolution" and "M-Theory" gives back vague results that doesn't seem to be very relevant with what you say, at least on the surface. Do you have any links or videos you can share for those that want to know more about what you're t...

Cousinbasil is black [a bro'], so he's allowed [entitled] to use it here. Wow ! I thought i was the only black guy here.lol We're so few in the world as a race anyway. Oh , and whatever happened to kevin solway?Not heard from him in a WHILE. FWIW, I'm half black/white, most of my family is black, a...

Seven years, and you still think that cause and effect is a finite phenomena.

1) How did a single cell or simple life form diverge into trillions of species and then once evolved is subject to lateral gene transfer? In other words; when life was simple, it had the magical property to become complex organisms, like a human. Once life is highly advanced, it loses this mysterio...

Science cannot observe a phenomena but without a premise draws a conclusion? Well that settles it, I should've left it with what Dan said. You clearly don't understand evolution. Did you watch that video? It would have helped you if you could get over it making fun of you. And besides, what's your ...

Are you feeling unappreciated? You sure do rant a lot. And I'm not avoiding your questions, you must not have noticed that I've given my explanation regarding the so-called randomness that occurs in evolution. If science cannot explain an observed phenomena, it's simply something that exists beyond ...

I don't respond to most of what you post because you spend much of them either a)writing on and on about how I'm just avoiding your arguments or b)saying something so elementary (like "a car or airplane, was it designed or did cause and effect just pop it out?") that it makes me wonder why...

So a vehicle is presumed. Do you mean the mechanical/electrical/chemical closed system that is so sophisticated, regulated and designed that not ten thousand of the worlds finest microbiological engineers can construct? It came with blueprints communicated in language in binary code that allowed th...

Nope. I designed the intelligent designer. And it created you? An Ouroboros of sorts? Is that what you believe in? So you think you know what consciousness is dependent on? Do tell - the suspense is to much for the readers. A vehicle and causal circumstances. Richard Dawkins Oh come now. Surely you...

We can observe the process by the means of it occurring is the premise. If it is unpredictable, it is therefore random in the result according to the present understanding. Yet we have the conclusion that it is a non conscious event that perfectly designs organisms. Yet, somehow, the perfectly desi...

In particular, while it is true that any given mutation is random (as far as we can tell), a series of mutations which are then preserved as the result of natural selection aren't really random at all, at least not in the way that is often depicted by critics of evolutionary theory. In classical ev...

I haven't read hardly any of Nietzsche yet. I'm not too much unlike you, I'm just a bit over 25 with a few years of experience of spare time philosophy. But yes, trying to kill the ego and create something "better" is an act of the ego. The phoenix may rise from the ashes but it eventually...

I would define an Emotion as a bodily reaction to an object or situation. If you're a cheating, wife beating, pyromaniac, white supremacist, I would say you've let your emotions get the best of you. Emotions to me are 'good' or bad' depending on the results they obtain. One mother may nurture her b...

Liberty, While it is true that referring to God as simply the ALL, or the Infinite, etc., is a matter of personal preference, it has nothing to do with theories or beliefs. It is used here as a word to describe something, not a declaration of a belief. What you are doing is rejecting what you are er...

Definitions of God: At Genius Forums : God is Absolute Reality/The Totality Not a Creator God. But they have issue with worshiping or believing in a creator God whether this creator God is a reality. I am no worshiper. But I am, for now at least, interested in knowing whether a creator God is. Othe...

Well, even if God is separated from the universe, that doesn't prevent from being infinite. a) Consider the possibility that a part of his consciousness is present in the universe, and even that part is enough to cover the whole universe. b) Furthermore, before the beginning of universe or any phys...

And you are just repeating the QRS's argument that has been repeated to death by followers like Kelly Jones. And you are just repeating the same old rhetoric that clearly shows that you haven't completely understood what the word "infinite" really implies. In what sense is the God as defi...

Then you are defining the universe to mean something finite. God cannot be the All and yet be able to create something finite. It's not me who is defining that. I am representing a theory of the Islamics, who claim their theory to be Truth, just as you claim your theory to be truth. I am just tryin...

I somehow intrinsically resist the notion that I cannot cause something, without that having been predetermined. I resist it because I do not think it is the truth. It's not so much that you cannot cause anything. You are caused to experience free will, as we all are. The key is to know that your e...

...the bit I've italicised is false. There's no "cancelling out" of any probability - the combined probability is simply derived from the individual probabilities. I'll take some specific events and you might get a better sense of what's being said. Imagine that you have over the course o...

But it does have something to do with the actual probabilities of the independent events: it is directly dependent on them. It is possible and meaningful to calculate the combined probability of a specific combination of statistically independent events from their individual probabilities. See my o...

I fail to see how this statement: Note that in statistics indepence means that one event does not influence the probability that the other event will or will not occur. And this quote: to say that two events are independent intuitively means that the occurrence of one event makes it neither more nor...

I will state openly that in no way would I consider the rapist/torturer in the above scenario to be "evil". I don't even consider Hitler and the entire Nazi system to be evil, any more than I consider their victims to be good. So why would I consider a solitary rapist/torturer to be evil?...