It is the most probable “natural” scenario, but even then there is no “hard” evidence that a huge parallel firing need generate anything like consciousness. Even then, why “my” consciousness? Why am “I” arising in this particular parallel firing in this particular body and not in some other one?
Proving that Aristotle is still a useful guide. The soul being the “form” of the body. Humans having an intellectual soul, the soul being the “who” that communicates with others. The Philosopher did not believe that the soul survived the body, however. Thomas has a different view, based on his biblical faith, which he squared with Aristotle, because Thomas was also a platonist. IAC, the modern view of the living being as a kind of machine, rather begs the question. For we must consider the “laws” that underlie that mechanism, which are essentially mysterious, and which do seem to “speak” to us, and for all we know, to animals as well. and even to the stones.
Your Question itself would make no sense if we were “only a ‘huge parallel’ firing of neurons.” Nothing is right or wrong for a system of a ‘huge parallel’ firing of neurons. You can’t make any such judgement or choice. Any allusion of choice is just a neurological feedback loop trying to keep you actively searching for more food and gain better prospects for reproduction.
Is there a difference between mind and consciousness? All you’ve managed to say is that ideas/inspiration pops into my mind. And I know that already. I told you that.
ok. In 1424 Joan of Arc experienced visions which told her to drive out the English and Burgundians, explaining that God supported Charles’ claim to the throne, supported Orleans’ captive overlord Duke Charles of Orleans, and had taken pity on the French population for the sufferings they had endured during the war.But by all means explain exactly how inspiration works in your supernatural soul, and I’ll then give my explanation to the same level of detail. (From past debates with others, I predict the supernatural explanation won’t explain much.)
Who created energy?
What do you think? And answer the question please; how did he tempt Jesus if you think he could not speak/communicate with the mind of Jesus?Are you saying satan is a physical or a spiritual being.
Why am “I” this soul and that soul? What’s the difference?
It seems to me your description of teleology is back-casting what we already know. A bird uses its wings for flight, but it wasn’t preconceived flight that made bird ancestors grow wings, but selective advantage brought by evolution. Same goes for legs, fins, and other means of locomotion.
You need to ponder this question a little deeper. The type of neurological parallel firings that occur in my body also occur, we presume, in other similar human bodies. Why am I, the consciousness that makes me who I am, in this particular body an not some other one? Parallel firings do not explain that.
Degeneration (given laws of entropy) would seem to be an easy one to answer by adaptation to environmental change, but the opposite process of actually constructing complex functional systems, like neural systems that integrate multi-sensual cues, from very basic cell functioning means that the capacity for such systems had to exist, at least potentially, in the prior forms in order for complex forms to evolve from basic precursors. The fact that such an incredible variety of complex functions as found in all plants and animals existed “potentially” in the first life forms, which themselves developed, accidentally, would seem to be an incredible stroke of blind fortune, when teleology would seem to have a more cogent and satisfying explanation. Especially since, as you say, the role of God from outside space/time cannot be summarily denied.
Super followup. An irrelevant question following an irrational question. Tell me if you can convey any relevant notion as to where or anywhere any thought happens to the question of souls?
The answer is just an algorithm. You can watch complexity emerge from randomness, as long as there’s an underlying set of conserved genes and an objective function that helps the best-scoring organisms survive. Earth isn’t a closed system. If it was, we’d never have existed. The sun provides the energy that the system needs not to just collapse into entropic heat death.
I meant I wasn’t making a claim about consciousness.
Really, you’ve never heard of subconscious = “the part of the mind of which one is not fully aware but which influences one’s actions and feelings”?
That’s not an explanation of inspiration, it’s an anecdote.
Off-topic. Either you don’t understand me or you’re playing games, either way I’m losing the energy to go on.
The author was inspired to use metaphors.
How do I know the sub-conscious exists if I’m not aware of it?
Judge: now inocente, we’re going to burn you at the stake unless you withdraw these anecdotes.That’s not an explanation of inspiration, it’s an anecdote.
Defendant: I was inspired to go on the killing spree by the spirit of Joan of Arc.
Judge: Oh well that explains it, you’re free to go, case dismissed.
Energy cannot be destroyed; The law should have been written Energy cannot be created by me, etc., etc., etc.Off-topic. Either you don’t understand me or you’re playing games, either way I’m losing the energy to go on.
Satan is a metaphor?
Have you never driven to work listening to the radio and thinking about the day ahead, and when you park realized you don’t remember how you got there or even which route you took? It can only be that your mind managed the task without you being consciously aware of it.
I have not. Since there is only one route there I take. But I often do not remember villages I pass through nor remember anything much about the route.
I am not sure what Christians mean when they refer to the “soul”. Is that the same thing as “the self”, namely the subjective sense of being which one has in a cognitively functioning state? If so, then it is more accurately described as “consciousness” and certainly could not possess all of the attributes Aquinas associates with “soul” (will, intellect, memory, eg.)
Sorry but no. You’re subconsciously noticing something is a bit out of the ordinary and reacting. Your conscious mind is far too slow to make these kinds of decision. It gets alerted though, and thinks something magic is going on.