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Re: Why am I an atheist
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qwik2learn
on 16/05/2016, 21:53:30 UTC
Your health praises of religion are like considering religion as a kind of Prozac or Ecstasy. One lives happy in one's delusion.
I prefer to be haunted by my destiny of nothingness, than live under an illusion (as I wrote here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1221052.msg14296644#msg14296644), especially one that I think has serious social consequences.
Is there actually any evidence for this claim that the destiny of your awareness is nothingness? OP makes the same claim but he also has no evidence, and there is strong evidence to the contrary:

"It is more elegant and far easier to accept as a working hypothesis that sentience exists as a potential at the source of creation, and the strongest evidence has already been put on the table: Everything to be observed in the universe implies consciousness."

4) Your theory on the Brain's role as a transmitter is precisely what I criticize.
You didn't explained how we lose conscience when the brain is injured/hill and why when the brain recovers we can't remember anything. If it was a transmitter, we should remember everything during the black out of the brain. It should be only an interruption of the "transmission".

I criticize the OP's theory that the brain is a generator of consciousness; the evidence points to a role more like that of a transmitter, but OP does not want to discuss that evidence with me in detail.
You can find your criticisms of the transmission hypothesis addressed in Irreducible Mind and other related publications, including ones I have cited for this thread.