Posted on 07/02/2022 4:17:30 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
“What do you think creates evolution.”
When you ask the wrong questions you get the wrong answers.
The correct question is:
“What do you think creates intelligence.”
My answer to that question:
Intelligence comes in many different varieties—and humans know very little of almost all of them.
It appears that intelligence is an attribute of the universe itself and may appear in a virtually infinite number of forms.
Evolution is a red herring.
How did we get here if not.
What do you think creates evolution
“How did we get here if not.”
The question itself is very confusing and misleading.
You should be asking how we became conscious or how any beings might become conscious.
“Consciousness” is what matters, whether here or elsewhere.
Evolution tells us nothing about consciousness—that is why it is a red herring.
Wouldn’t we have to get here in the first place, with the all the physical attributes that we have, to become ‘conscious’?
Think of computer hardware and software.
Both are necessary for the computers to “work” but neither works just by themselves.
Understanding just the computer or just the software explains nothing.
“Science” studies just the hardware.
Whether the computer and software are “here” or somewhere else is another red herring.
I guess I really don’t understand your argument.
I don’t buy the notion that consciousness is merely a product of the brain; and I believe that other animals may have some degree or type of ‘consciousness’.
But the Human is the one that appears to have developed to the point, and with the capabilities, that we have. And unless you believe that we were created out of ‘whole cloth’ à la Genesis, how do you believe we got here, and developed to the state that we exhibit today?
“how do you believe we got here, and developed to the state that we exhibit today?”
My answer is one that everyone will hate.
We have no &^%$ing clue.
Humans are much dumber than they think they are.
You require more reading on a few things you have a lot to learn.
“This seems a pretty good argument for creation...”
Agreed.
After all, is there really any difference between a miracle, on one hand; and a series of astronomically improbable events leading to the beginning of life, on the other hand?
Perhaps they see it but fail to recognize it.
One theory is that the brain is an antenna and consciousness exists outside the brain in another dimension. Consciousness is a type of magnetic field generated similarly as a signal is transmitted from a radio tower.
The question then becomes…is the brain sending or receiving? If it is receiving, then from where does the energy originate? If it is sending, then to where and to what is it sending.
I don’t know - it’s over my head :-)
It has just made intuitive sense to me that consciousness is really ‘out there’, not ‘in here’.
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