2007-01-22 04:51:15 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I've been reading a lot about the intersection of neuroscience and quantum mechanics, so I'm pretty confident no one will find the answer in a church. As for the bulk of answers saying "we'll get back to you on that one," I think there'll be a major paradigm shift before that happens.
2007-01-22 05:03:55 · update #1
Scientists are still working on that. Keep watching the field of neural science.
Already there have been scientists who have duplicated some of the symptoms of a near-death experience in artificial neural networks. I don't have the link any longer (I'm trying desperately to find it... have been for weeks) but a researcher built a neural network that he trained to recognize and output a selection of poems. Then he took a virtual scalpel to the connections and started breaking the network down. As would be expected, the more damage he did, the worse the results of the network... until about 60%-70% damage, at which point the network started to spit out novel and unique poems that were reminicent of the ones it had memorized ... and the new poems were subjectively pretty good no less.
In short -- we'll get back to you on that one.
2007-01-22 04:59:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The question makes a presumption called the fallacy of division. The nature of the whole is not to be confused with the nature of the parts.
None of the players are championship players, therefore the team is not a champtionship team. (false inference)
Reverse your question:
How does insentience arise from a structure of sentient parts?
Language arises from sentient beings, but remains insentient.
2007-01-22 13:01:18 · answer #2 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't know yet - Can God explain it?
Didn't think so.
I guess the neurobiologists will have to keep working and I don't think they'll get any answers in church, will they?
You know how could life exist when no atom is alive - well we do know but that's just something for you to think about - after all, I can tell you one thing as a fact - when we do know it will be rooted in the physical, it will be rational, it will be testable and it will not resort to magical sky-fairies.
2007-01-22 13:01:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the "how" portion of that question has been answered, but Andrew Newberg and William Calvin explore the mechanisms very well in their books.
2007-01-22 12:57:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sentience is merely the amalgamation of a large number of mundane reactions.
2007-01-22 13:34:51 · answer #5 · answered by Insulting Other Participants 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not again. Go back to school and learn how because I can't explain what you should already know in 1500 words on some web board. Its far too complex.
2007-01-22 12:58:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The same way a sentient god would. The answer is we do not know the full details yet but we are working on it.
2007-01-22 12:56:58 · answer #7 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't know - yet - so what?
That hardly makes it a religious question.
2007-01-22 13:05:13 · answer #8 · answered by TRITHEMIUS 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it doesn't - not on its own atleast
2007-01-22 13:00:20 · answer #9 · answered by servant FM 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋