Shedding Light On How Cells Communicate (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, November 16, 2012, 08:13 (4392 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: I do not apply human attributes such as love or meanness to the UI. When I say do not humanize God, I mean remove all human emotions. Self-awareness is a different issue. It is an attribute of the kind of consciousness we humans have, and I feel the UI has and has had before we achieve it.-I must confess I find this totally inconceivable. A UI that is self-aware will know why it is creating life. I don't think the sun, the rain and the earthworm are aware of any purpose in what they are doing, but a self-aware God who creates life MUST have a reason, and whatever that may be (curiosity, boredom, love, pleasure) must count as a human attribute. However, if your God's self-awareness makes him aware that he is nothing but a blank, he might just as well not be self-aware! BBella's ALL THAT IS at least gives us the possibility that our own attributes may be part of it. -You said earlier: "It is hard for me to imagine that we have evolved beyond what existed before us" ... which was a reference to God, not to bacteria. In that case I can only ask, don't you find it hard to imagine a God that does not have the capacity to feel all the things we humans feel?