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10-05-2014 3:27 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Dr Adequate
10-04-2014 10:02 PM

As I've always understood it - as much or as little as I have - materialism is not a scientific issue but a philosophical one, more to do with whether we are merely bundled of atoms or whether we transcend matter because of consciousness.
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It's difficult to describe a thought as 'matter', albeit it is a function of matter.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
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10-09-2014 5:55 PM

The default position is that there is no such thing as mind, just as there is no such thing as soul. 'Mind' is just a convenient summary of one of the functions af a human brain that we don't yet know much about. In the meantime, superstition fills the knowledge vacuum, as it always has.
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The onus is therefore on those that believe that the mind is a seperate entity to the brain to show us - using more than just words - that it actually exists.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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