how did conciousness arise from inanimate matter?
2006-12-20 07:02:14 · 33 answers · asked by sickblade 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Our matter is not inanimate. Our brains are biological electro-chemical computers.
We do not understand what causes consciousness to arise but we know it to exist in most, if not all, mammals (this is different from 'self awareness').
One interesting theory put forth is that consciousness arises from quantum fluctiatons within the brain itself, as the brain is subject to the same laws of physics as everything else..
2006-12-21 19:09:28 · answer #1 · answered by minuteblue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If god created everything, because it must have a creator, then why doesn't god need one?
MDP
P.S if this gravity thing is real then how does it work?
Also evolution cannot be a law. A law is a single statement like: E=mc2. If it isn't presented like that it is a theory, I group of related laws that form a macro rule. (And how about the fact that after thousands of year religion hasn't been able to explain anything. Why was it that with religion around for SO long it took the advent of modern scientific principles to start learning and applying how the things worked to our lives with any amount of consistency? As far as lindy is concerned, evolutionists don't side step anything. Creationists do all the time. Creationists never explain anything. Also not all people who study evolution are linguists, why don't you ask them how. (And some cultures still DO use grunts and whistles and other sounds in communication.) Another thing to realize is that facts don't change just because someone who studies them can't answer a question about them. If you as a theist followed that same principle then no one who believes any religion could be asked anything. Why do you side step ALL of the evidence against creationism? (Because your afraid of death and won't admit it..I bet your response to that is along the lines of...who's afraid? Or I'm not afraid of death because god [insert theistic phrase or bible quote here]. Also because you feel that you need someone to tell you to do the right thing and someone to blame you doing the wrong thing on. (I.E justifying discrimination, being too lazy to learn how things really work, to hate other people.) Your answer to that is probably along the lines of... I know hows things really work, or I don't hate any one and I don't discriminate. You don't even have to type a response. No matter how much you lie to yourself or the people here you know you are just that, lying. Your first response is going to be similar to these. Rather than trying to understand what I'm saying you're just going to try and rationalize your view point, because that's all you can do. No matter how much you try though you can never change reality; you can only see the light and come live with the rest of us in it.
2006-12-20 07:05:41 · answer #2 · answered by Mervin DePervin 2 · 5⤊ 2⤋
We don't know. Yet.
You should realize that not knowing how a particular process occurred millions of years ago does not mean evolution is incorrect -- it just means we don't know yet. It also doesn't give any indication that the unknown process came from "god" (that would require evidence that it came from god, not a lack of knowledge on our part as to how it happened). It just means we don't know -- YET.
I stress the YET part because we may very well learn how this happened naturally in the future -- there is already considerable research and evidence showing some good possibilities of how it arose through evolution, but no definitive answer yet. It's really hard to determine all of the factors involved with something that happened so long ago from dead fossils ONLY -- that's why recent advances in genetics research has made great strides in advancing our knowledge of evolutionary history, and will continue to do so.
Of course, we may never actually figure it out -- that's a real possibility. Science is willing to admit that there are things we just don't know, and may never know. We can live with that. But be sure not to make the logical fallacy of assuming a cause for which there is no evidence -- once again, not knowing how something happened does NOT mean it happened supernaturally...it just means we don't know. Yet :)
2006-12-20 07:09:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Evolutionists are notorious for side-stepping the simple questions that evolution cannot answer. Generally, they do this two ways.
One, they immediately become offensive and assume the position of cowering under the umbrella of "science" by attacking the intelligence of the creationist. Wake Up! The whole world now realizes that scientists do not hold the patent on intelligence.
Two, they believe that "time" is sufficient for answering the unsolvable evolutionary problems. If 15 million years is unsatisfactory - then they go with 20 billion, or 200 billion, and on and on, and blah blah blah.
Another simple question that evolutionists have no intelligent answer for is - the advent of "language." When, during the evolutionary process, were grunts, growls, and whistles rendered unserviceable as effective communication?
Evolution has no intelligent answer for that one either.
2006-12-20 07:38:19 · answer #4 · answered by Wilson 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Are single celled organisms conscious? Consciousness is an awareness of ones environment and existence. For one to be aware of ones environment one has to have the means to do so. Sensory apparatus would have had to evolve for there to be consciousness.
I don't have a problem with the concept that life on this planet may have started by certain chemicals being in the right place at the right time. Life is about where you are NOW.
Learn from the past, don't get mired in it.
2006-12-20 07:22:03 · answer #5 · answered by Black Dragon 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
How did anything come out of nothing.
Time is a measuring tool that we have because the Earth and Sun move in reliable intervals. Great, this concept of time means little without the sun or on different planets that have different orbits or suns. The past goes infinitely backwards before time and before existence, that is a paradox because nothingness lasted forever and yet there is something here. I think after infinity years of being nothing it got boring, empty nothingness wanted life, starting with movement and evolving from there.
2006-12-20 07:20:13 · answer #6 · answered by Sara 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
By inanimate matter, I assume you're refering to bricks. Talking to a brick may seems like talking to a Creationist, but there's an important difference: the brick won't lie to you.
2006-12-20 10:00:07 · answer #7 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
easliy we weren't inanimate matter you have that confuse diwth man being made from dirt and woman being made from rib bones. we can from a small singal celled oranism that was a mass of specific chemicals. (sounds like a growing feuts to me).
if you think that chemicals are just inanimate matter and blah blah blah then ask a doctor what our bodies are made of. 97%water and 3% special chemicals in many different states to make up differnt textures and boildy stuff.
2006-12-20 07:06:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Inanimate objects do not have consciousness - that's the point he is making. It's impossible. This universe began 15 billion years ago, according to most scientists today. Another good question is, "How does something come from nothing?". It doesn't - answer that, evolutionists.
2006-12-20 07:06:17 · answer #9 · answered by LGT 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Well that depends what you mean by consciousness? Is something that flees from a predator conscious? Is the ppredator that stalks it conscious?
Are insects conscious?
It would seem to be a byproduct of any nervous system. Or more simply, your brain creates consciousness.
2006-12-20 07:10:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋