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There is nothing wrong with my argument, and every thing wrong with your analogy - that's the point. You can never talk about a thing for which you have no evidence; it is absurd. Precisely. You can never claim something lacks a form of consciousness when you have no evidence. That is absurd and it...

Chaz: As there are no zombies, look at what you can. Single celled organisms are 'aware' of food sources, light and temperature changes. Leaves can move to orient themselves to sunlight, close up to avoid loosing water. As evolution has brought forth increasingly complex organisms we find that the ...

As there are no zombies, look at what you can. Single celled organisms are 'aware' of food sources, light and temperature changes. Leaves can move to orient themselves to sunlight, close up to avoid loosing water. As evolution has brought forth increasingly complex organisms we find that the respon...

chaz wyman wrote:

tbieter wrote:What makes you an atheist?

I do not believe in god.

Presumably this implies you have a positive belief that there is no God.

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but perhaps consider:

Wittgentstein on family resemblance & rules, Kripke on Wittgentstein.
Quine on indeterminacy of translation
paradox of the heap

Chaz: No, radio waves for commercial transmission are designed to include information such as music, for example, brain waves are not of this sort.. Such electromagnetic energy detectable from outside the brain are not organised for transmission, but an epiphenomenon which is a chaotic by-product o...

DIRECT BRAIN CONTACT, sums up the problem. Such evidence is drawn from a continually acting physical object; the brain. It is evident that these (ahem!) transmissions, require the persistence of a living material structure and do not have any independent existence. Outside the body, without the hel...

Re: Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words This line of evidence is not relevant to the idea of the SOUL. We were in discussion about transmissions from the brain containing information; and out in the unive...

Chaz: The radiation from the brain is NOT organised and contains no information about thoughts and feelings. MGL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... ughts.html Chaz: Speculation. From the UKs answer to the National Inquirer. MGL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12990211 Chaz:...

The radiation from the brain is NOT organised and contains no information about thoughts and feelings. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2095214/As-scientists-discover-translate-brainwaves-words--Could-machine-read-innermost-thoughts.html Speculation. From the UKs answer to the Nationa...

Chaz: Just because you don't have the answer to a question does not give you the right, to propose there is no cause and effect here. The same problem of induction happens to apply to all known physical phenomena. Light from a light bulb remains a puzzle. You always get to a point where explanation...

Omniscientone: It could be a fundamental property of the universe itself. Chaz: Just no. You are just being ridiculous. Omniscientone: The brain is almost certainly has a correlation with consciousness, but you can't currently argue that it arises from brain matter. That's just not proven. Chaz:I'm...

The radiation from the brain is NOT organised and contains no information about thoughts and feelings. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2095214/As-scientists-discover-translate-brainwaves-words--Could-machine-read-innermost-thoughts.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-1...

One possible direction of evolution is that it accelerates the rate of entropy of the universe.

http://people.biology.ufl.edu/ulan/pubs/Prodent.pdf

There are easy enough ways to 'prove' the independent existence of a thing by means of independent corroboration from other people. Simply enough two people agreeing that contents of a closed box, or the daily agreement of the features and topography of foreign countries corroborated by foreign tra...