Mysteries of the Brain

[Radrook]

Yep. Evolution can produce some really complicated things.

Please refrain from deviating this thread into atheism vs intelligent design controversy. Thanks!

 

[Radrook]

Yeah, what kind of sick demented intelligent designer would intentionally do that to people?

Luckily, the answer is no one since it wasn't something intentionally designed by an intelligence.

Did the video mention intelligent design?

 

[Speedwell]

Please refrain from deviating this thread into atheism vs intelligent design controversy. Thanks!

Not possible. There is no "atheism vs intelligent design controversy" as such. The controversy, if there is one, is intelligent design vs a variety of theistic and non-theistic models.

 

[Radrook]

Yeah, what kind of sick demented intelligent designer would intentionally do that to people?

Luckily, the answer is no one since it wasn't something intentionally designed by an intelligence.

Illogical conclusion based on defective premise.

 

[Radrook]

Silly designer.

This thread isn't about design vs non-design. Neither is it about theism vs atheism. It is simply about the mysteries of the brain.

 

[HitchSlap]

This thread isn't about design vs non-design. Neither is it about theism vs atheism. It is simply about the mysteries of the brain.

Don't you think it might behoove you to actually attempt to understand what we do know about the brain, rather than 'goddidit' the "mysteries" of the brain?

 

[Radrook]

Don't you think it might behoove you to actually attempt to understand what we do know about the brain, rather than 'goddidit' the "mysteries" of the brain?

You wish to deviate the thread into a subject it was not intended for. Please try to stay on topic.

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

This thread isn't about design vs non-design. Neither is it about theism vs atheism. It is simply about the mysteries of the brain.

What is really interesting about the mysteries of the brain mentioned so far, is that they seem to support the idea of a trial & error, 'if-it-works-keep-it' iterative or stepwise kind of development rather than an intelligent designer...

Just sayin'

 

[Radrook]

Excerpt:

Of all the objects in the universe, the human brain is the most complex: There are as many neurons in the brain as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. So it is no surprise that, despite the glow from recent advances in the science of the brain and mind, we still find ourselves squinting in the dark somewhat. But we are at least beginning to grasp the crucial mysteries of neuroscience and starting to make headway in addressing them. Even partial answers to these 10 questions could restructure our understanding of the roughly three-pound mass of gray and white matter that defines who we are.

10 Unsolved Mysteries Of The Brain | DiscoverMagazine.com

 

[Loudmouth]

Examples of my claims are always misunderstood, said to be bogus, misrepresented, or else are said to be incapable of being seen.

Examples?

 

[KCfromNC]

Examples of my claims are always misunderstood, said to be bogus, misrepresented, or else are said to be incapable of being seen.

So you say, but then you can't point to any actual examples of these things happening. I wonder why.

 

[KCfromNC]

Illogical conclusion based on defective premise.

Just not any that you can actually point out. Weird you'd go through the effort to dodge responding to a 3 week old post, though.

 

[bhsmte]

So you say, but then you can't point to any actual examples of these things happening. I wonder why.

I have yet to see him give any examples. Don't think he starts now.

 

[Radrook]

 

[bhsmte]

Please explain the main points of this video in your own words, if that is possible.

 

[Radrook]

One of the things which prevents the creation of androids of the kind illustrated in the film I Robot is that we are incapable of artificially duplicating what we call human consciousness with all its intricately fine nuances. That is another mystery of the human brain that is presently far beyond our grasp to comprehend.

It would be poetic – albeit deeply frustrating – were it ultimately to prove that the one thing the human mind is incapable of comprehending is itself. An answer must be out there somewhere. And finding it matters: indeed, one could argue that nothing else could ever matter more – since anything at all that matters, in life, only does so as a consequence of its impact on conscious brains. Yet there’s no reason to assume that our brains will be adequate vessels for the voyage towards that answer. Nor that, were we to stumble on a solution to the Hard Problem, on some distant shore where neuroscience meets philosophy, we would even recognize that we’d found it.
Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness? | Oliver Burkeman

 

[Jimmy D]

One of the things which prevents the creation of androids of the kind illustrated in the film I Robot is that we are incapable of artificially duplicating what we call human consciousness with all its intricately fine nuances. That is another mystery of the human brain that is presently far beyond our grasp to comprehend.

Evidence it can't be designed?

 

[Radrook]

Evidence it can't be designed?

Where did I claim that it can't ever be designed or that it isn't evidence of having been designed?

 

[Jimmy D]

Where did I claim that it can't ever be designed or that it isn't evidence of having been designed?

Why is my quote function quoting something different to what you typed?

Anyway, I was only joking, hence the

 

[Loudmouth]

One of the things which prevents the creation of androids of the kind illustrated in the film I Robot is that we are incapable of artificially duplicating what we call human consciousness with all its intricately fine nuances. That is another mystery of the human brain that is presently far beyond our grasp to comprehend.

Yes, presently. 1,000 years ago there were many more things that were beyond our comprehension, but now we understand them through the discovery of natural processes found in nature.

You aren't trying to make a God of the Gaps argument, are you?