XPost: alt.atheism, alt.talk.creationism, sci.skeptic   
   XPost: alt.philosophy   
   From: dale@dalekelly.org   
      
   On Sat, 04 Jun 2016 05:24:37 -0700, Jeanne Douglas   
    wrote:   
      
   >In article ,   
   > Kelsey Bjarnason  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 03 Jun 2016 17:49:34 -0400, Dale wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > falls under the category that materialism and empiricism might not be   
   >> > able to have a "theory of everything" and that a "theory of anything"   
   >> > and spiritual essence might be necessary to explain the experience of   
   >> > sentience   
   >>   
   >> Or, we might require a theory explaining why jelly beans cause everything   
   >> else to exist.  If you're going to throw out random nonsense, everyone   
   >> else is allowed to as well... and with just as much reason to take it   
   >> seriously.   
   >>   
   >> "Spiritual essence".  Right...   
   >   
   >   
   >They're at the very beginning of understanding how the brain works and   
   >how the mind emerges from it. What will the silly fundies do when we   
   >advanced our knowledge from say, pre-school levels to Ph.D. levels?   
      
   I don't think a mind is sentience, a mind just "minds", kind of like   
   an event loop in data flow programming   
      
      
   >   
   >Their gaps just keep getting smaller and no matter how hard they rail   
   >and fight against it, they just cannot stop progress from happening.   
      
      
      
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