If you are nothing but an amalgamation of blind natural processes, then nothing you do or say or think is the result of rational intention. It just the end result of unintentional non-rational activity; just a by-product of biochemical reactions.
it is true if we are nothing more than physical processes.
Well, since you haven’t actually made an argument and simply chosen to reduce everything to moving parts, there really isn’t much to debate. Secondly i have no problem with the idea that our brain generates our sensory experiences. That’s not the problem. I simply disagree with your assertions in regards to rational intention, because it is clear to me that intentional activity is the antithesis of a process that moves naturally to a particular end, thus intentionality cannot be reduced to natural activity alone.
You are focussing on what is known as the Specious Present rather than the Now, the Actual Present, which cannot be perceived nor interacted with consciously (at least not in the bodily way you define consciousness):
You simply need to do a quick google search for something like this to find a plethora of citings explaining just as I have that “Now” has no duration and cannot be perceived:
No, you already mentioned that there is more than natural process in the brain. This means that you also have accepted that there are two things at least, material process and something else.
The brain is necessary but not sufficient for the production of brain patterns. If it were then there would be no difference in the brain patterns generated by a live being and a dead being.
Demikhov used to transplant dog’s heads. What happened to the soul? And if you are brain dead, has your soul left? Or does it stay with the body if the brain dies?
No I want you to explain how intention can be achieved with only blind natural processes.
That is not an explanation but a claim. If matter is unconscious then you need an explanation on how it could become conscious.
Material activity, according to physicist, cannot give rise or cause a entity.
Did Demikhov experiments simply prolong the dogs’ death event? None survived the ordeal very long. The immaterial souls animated each dog’s brain until the brains could no longer be animated.
So the dog’s soul went with the brain. There’s a connection there. Soul and brain.Bradskii:
Did Demikhov experiments simply prolong the dogs’ death event? None survived the ordeal very long. The immaterial souls animated each dog’s brain until the brains could no longer be animated.
The “brain dead” protocol in use today is not the equivalent of “biologically dead”. As long as any biological capability of the body is functioning, the soul is present.
Yes, as originally posted – brain and soul both necessary for brain waves.
If you are dead and I keep raising and lowering your arm, you’re still dead. Same with the machines.
And here, below, is your “scientific evidence”, mr. science must be your name, that
But you don’t stop there; you find an article that states that “Brain scans uncover a key sign of consciousness”, but you with your self-science declare the “answer” that no-one but you knows:
There is no science with you, and you will not recognize “Now”, no matter how you protest that you can perceive.
I guess just like when my car isn’t working. When it’s ‘dead’. It needs the fuel and the electricity just like I do. But I can pump the pedal (lift the arm) and nothing happens. It’s not like the motor is running but it won’t move. Everything has stopped. It’s brain dead. As you said: Same with machines.Bradskii:
Yes, as originally posted – brain and soul both necessary for brain waves.
If you are dead and I keep raising and lowering your arm, you’re still dead. Same with the machines.
Why accept this sequence, 1) God creates matter and then matter causes consciousness instead of simply this sequence, 2) God creates consciousness. By Occam Razor (2) should be the correct one.
How? Could you please elaborate? Are you talking about the state of consciousness?
How about other objects, such as a stone? How could you prove that a stone is unconscious?