Introducing the brain: general (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Thursday, March 17, 2022, 15:58 (743 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: We agree in gradual complexity from hominin to homo.

dhw: Things are looking up!

DAVID: You can't deny the huge frontal lobes of sapiens was finally fully used 315.000 years after arrival.

dhw: Of course I deny it. I believe the frontal lobes of sapiens (which did not suddenly appear out of the blue but evolved gradually) will continue to be used in new ways so long as sapiens survives. And I must repeat that I do not believe your God inserted them into a few pre-sapiens heads thousands of years before they were needed.

Simple different point of view as you don't believe in God.


Memory formation

DAVID: Kidneys, lungs, livers, etc. work without God. Why can't the brain?

dhw: You believe your God designed it, so why can’t you believe that he could have designed this autonomous mechanism to add cells as well as complexify them?

DAVID: Why must God give off His designing ability? I have never understood your insistence on presenting this theory. Does it create a weaker God or stronger in your mind?

dhw: The usual dodge of answering a question with a question. This website grew out of my typically human sense of curiosity. I want to know (even if I can’t) how we got here, what is the origin of consciousness, is there a God, and if there is, what might he be like? And so I look at what we do know, and I try to form some kind of explanatory pattern out of it. You have helped enormously in expanding my actual knowledge, but I find some of your conclusions extremely unconvincing, and I look for alternatives. Hence our discussions concerning the intelligent cell theory. I couldn’t care less whether you think this means a weaker or stronger God. The question is whether it might explain some of the mysteries of evolution. Would you now please answer my own bolded question.

Answered over and over: a proper designer does not hand off his designing ability to secondhand designers. Elsewhere today I've called you out on cell committees signaling but no evidence of thinking capacity for complex design..


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