Proving common descent (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, November 18, 2012, 22:15 (4365 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: That is the analogy I am drawing: first-cause energy may have been intelligent (as Nature is), and through aeons of its intelligent material combinations has gradually increased intelligence to consciousness and then to self-consciousness. -That statement is pure materialism through and through. Nature is not intelligent ipso facto. Inorganic material has no intelligence. Intelligence comes only with life.
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> dhw: And here is another possibility, raised by NDEs: that once our material self reverts to the energy from which it originally sprang, perhaps our human attributes will bring new dimensions to that original energy. Who knows?-NDE's are a form of proof that consciousness is universal. That is how the brain can formulate NDE stories while totally non-functional.