Identity (Identity)

by David Turell , Sunday, August 30, 2009, 18:53 (5563 days ago) @ George Jelliss

This is the problem I have all the time in attempting to argue on this forum. The only reliable evidence we have is that we are made of atoms. The evidence for this is overwhelming. Yet you disregard this evidence completely! There is no evidence for "universal intelligence" or disembodied minds other than subjective speculation and fanciful imagination. - This should not be a problem. I agree there is no evidence for a universal intelligence, but it is the best supposition I can come up with as an answer for me. From the evidence, as I interpret it, chance has no chance at all for creating what we have as our life and reality. You choose a different conclusion, as is your right. I don't know how much background you have in biochemistry (the chemistry of life) and mammalian physiology. but what I have seen is close to miraculous. For example, in kidney dialysis, our best efforts don't come close to what the kidney really does. Frankly, we do a half-baked job which is barely adequate, which is why transplant is the preferred method. We still don't have a good way of substituting for the liver, which is a much more complex organ in its functions. Heart transplants work so well because it is a simple muscular pump, not very complex at all. I will ask a direct question. How much of this do you understand? Because it is the key to my point of view.