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I am 19 years old and have been raised as Catholic. I’ve had a few difficulties in belief in God the last month after reading up on neurological “discoveries/advancements.” Recently they’re putting brain chips in patients to take away OCD symptoms and supposedly they work. Also, I read upon neurosurgeons can mess up and take away the part of the brain associated with consciousness, making the person a vegetable. This is all besides the point. Free Will seems real to us, but the more I think of it the more it seems predetermined. All outside factors of my life I can’t control. Any influences that happen to me are outside of my control. These influences help us make decisions in which there is one outcome for each decision. We have to pick one decision, and we usually pick the most logical one. In the end I make the decision, but it seems like I make the decision based on past events in which I couldn’t control (major events, parental influences, friends influences, blah blah blah). As I understand it we do make those choices, but when I say ‘we’ I mean our brains make those choices. There doesn’t seem to be much of a difference between a supercomputer and a human brain. I don’t know of any clue of where consciousness comes from, but what is consciousness without the ability to make your own decisions. I was wondering if there’s an argument for free will or consciousness or anything else that has to do with neurology and what scientists call “facts.” I don’t want to believe in this because I feel detached thinking of everyone as biological functions. I’ve been quite depressed thinking of this whole thing and wish I never learned of it. Anyway I’m looking for a rock hard explanation that agrees with the scientific community in a way that makes sense for me to buy into. I feel the big thing scientists have for them is it’s testable and speaking of things other than material are not testable. I really need help with this, because without a belief in God I feel meaningless and feel other people are meaningless, this thought process consumes me and I hate it. Please help.
-Luke
-Luke