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White Beard said:
Just how it goes I suppose.

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White Beard said:
Perhaps.

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I've been reading about information theory lately which more or less implies that neurons in the brain function in the same was as computers, and can be re-coded into the binary language of computers, which in my mind should result in one of two interesting scenarios once computer science has the power to hold the amount of information in a human brain (synapse to synapse data)

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Another argument used by materialists is the hypothesis that psychical life could be generated by the fact that in the brain there are many exchanges of information. Also this is a case of logical contradiction, because the concept itself of information presupposes the existence of consciousness, and so this concept cannot be used to explain the existence of consciousness. Materialists often say that also in computers there are many informations, but this is an improper language. In fact, in computers there are only electric impulses. It is the human mind who has established a conventional code that allows to identify specific successions of electric impulses as pieces of information. It is the same for the Morse alphabet: a succession of points and lines is not by itself an information; it becomes an information only if a conscious and intelligent mind has established a conventional code to attribute a given meaning to that succession of points and lines. So, every information is always the product of conscious psychical life, which proves that the concept of information cannot be used to explain the existence of consciousness.

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A last typical contradiction in materialism is the claim that the electric impulse in the brain generate consciousness, sensations, emotions, etc. Such a claim is incompatible with the laws of physics which establish that electric impulses in our brain are equivalent to all the other electric impulses out of our brain (electric impulses are formed uniquely by some moving electrons), and that all electric impulses generate only electromagnetic fields. You must change the laws of physics if you want to claim that electric impulses generate something else beyond electromagnetic fields. Actually, materialists simply take some key words from the language of physics, such as "electric impulse", "energy", etc. and then attribute to these words new properties incompatible with the laws of physics; this is a clear abuse of scientific language.

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Ravus said:
What do you believe your consciousness is created from? How are animals, and possibly other lifeforms, conscious? Is the entire universe conscious, or is consciousness held only in tiny moving bastions of flesh? Will consciousness exist after death, or does consciousness simply and irreversibly die with the organism holding it?

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