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Originally Posted by doppler
So our conscious self's are actually just highly advanced forms of artificial intelligence, just a lot of electrical signals nothing special at all. It's all just chemistry and physics and a lot of atoms. I'm not religious just confused how simple atoms can arrange themselves into self replicating self conscious lifeforms. Everything seems "real" to me but I'm actually just a chemical reaction that will finish in the next 30 years.  |
Hi Rick,
Well there are many things we dont know at a personal level.
There are many things science has not worked out..dark matter and dark energy are addmissions by science they dont have a specific answer...dark usually is an indicator that we are still in the dark and "dark" used as a placeholder whilst more research continues.
The problem for so many humans is when they dont know the answer they explain their mystery by referencing an entity that they know even less about and then cite a plan of that entity. They also have no idea as to that plans validity or reality and yet then will regard science as lacking because it has not worked everything yet...With science the quest for knowledge continues way past superstitious writings supposedly inspired by a mystical entity.
Science research gets published and others can review such and find fault which of course is not a principle we find in any religion. Change is not welcomed by any religion and that clearly inhibits growth in knowledge and understanding of our world.
And yet then there are those who we can only call anti science who proclaim that their mystery is the answer to everything and become convinced that their opinion is correct and has no requirement of evidence or validation when their opinion is labled faith.. these folk take us backwards to times when folk opperated under superstition and myth...science takes us forward and does not make stuff up or speculate and that keeps us pretty close to reality...thankfully.
I wonder about many things and have ideas as to how this or that may work and certainly life is so interesting.
But I never feel compelled to say...How mysterious therefore everything must be designed by some super inteligence...why even thing such...why not tell the truth..."I dont know"...ask folk and they will make up all sorts of stuff but not often do we have someone admit the truth...I dont know.
I find it facinating folk must have an answer even if its a made up one.
anti science = stupid and superstitious.
alex