Thought experiment: Take a remote control car. Damage the radio receiver or the chips that translate its signals into signals to the motors. Observe that this creates degraded performance (perhaps the car can only turn left now, not right). Does this disprove the idea that something operated the car other than those chips?
Where is the interface between the soul and the brain? How do they communicate? Why and how the chemical changes in the brain changes the character and psyche of a person if it comes from the incorruptible soul?
It absolutely does, it's just not as detailed as we have for how computers work....
Consciousness is in many ways an illusion, manifested as a result of complex chemical processes passed on from our predecessors and developed over the course of billions of years....
Just because you perceive yourself as having free will does not mean you actually do... See the recent post on this site about people getting convinced they committed a crime they not only were innocent of but had never even happened at all....
I don't think that's true; while it's obviously true that many mental processes can probably be explained away, something sits at the center of the mind that perceives things, and claiming that said awareness is a material or emergent property is a claim you can make, but it's a completely unsubstantiated one.
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Thought experiment: Take a remote control car. Damage the radio receiver or the chips that translate its signals into signals to the motors. Observe that this creates degraded performance (perhaps the car can only turn left now, not right). Does this disprove the idea that something operated the car other than those chips?
Where is the interface between the soul and the brain? How do they communicate? Why and how the chemical changes in the brain changes the character and psyche of a person if it comes from the incorruptible soul?
I don't know. OTOH materialism doesn't have an explanation for consciousness so I can live with that.
It absolutely does, it's just not as detailed as we have for how computers work....
Consciousness is in many ways an illusion, manifested as a result of complex chemical processes passed on from our predecessors and developed over the course of billions of years....
Just because you perceive yourself as having free will does not mean you actually do... See the recent post on this site about people getting convinced they committed a crime they not only were innocent of but had never even happened at all....
I don't think that's true; while it's obviously true that many mental processes can probably be explained away, something sits at the center of the mind that perceives things, and claiming that said awareness is a material or emergent property is a claim you can make, but it's a completely unsubstantiated one.
Your whole post can be summed up as nothing but anthropomorphising an 'inanimate' process....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism