bigjohn16 Donating Member (733 posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Dec-23-09 11:43 PM
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...there's no science that I've seen that shows that when our brain dies something magical happens.
There's no scientific proof of thought either. We do it, we know its effects but we cannot find the physical mechanism for why it happens. If we reduce the brain as an organ we find various lobs comprised of tissues that are proteins that are made up of molecules from a combination of atoms which are sub-atomic particles meshed together from various quantum phenomenon.
BUT...
...no matter how far we go we cannot find WHY or HOW poets write poems or why young girls swoon for them let alone what enables scientists to do what they do. In fact, the deeper we go the less unlikely it seems that the material phenomena are capable of producing what is euphemistically dubbed "the human mind."
To borrow a phrase from the quoted post, i almost seems as if "something magical happens."
In short, it seems to be very much separate from the natural world that something as natural as thought should ever occur. Some might even say its is beyond/above nature, a.k.a. SUPERnatural.
Then to claim--amid all this breathtaking degree of ignorance about one's one ability to think--that whatever "thing" the mind might be it is impossible for it to be translated into a dimension/reality/super-nature where it is at home because there is where it finds its "genesis' is to make a declarations based on spite rather than the empiricism the skeptic pretends to pride itself upon.
