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[Anonymous No.17022660]

>You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.
Based. Non-materialists on suicide watch.

[Anonymous No.17022672]

>>17022660
proof: none
practical consequences: zero

[doubtposting !!0CYbMy7gCdH No.17022682]

My molecules and I have conferred and come to a conclusion regarding the soul or the lack thereof; We do not give a shit.

[Anonymous No.17022747]

>You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.

[Anonymous No.17022770]

>>17022660
Physicalists will pitilessly annihilated.

[Anonymous No.17022792]

>>17022682
lol
>>17022660
>t picrel

[Anonymous No.17022977]

>>17022672
>proof: none
lmao yeah okay.

>Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS[2][1] (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was a British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. In 1953, he co-authored with James Watson the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Together with Watson and Maurice Wilkins, he was jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".[5][6] The results were based partly on fundamental studies done by Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling and Wilkins.
>During the remainder of his career, he held the post of J.W. Kieckhefer Distinguished Research Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. His later research centered on theoretical neurobiology and attempts to advance the scientific study of human consciousness. He remained in this post until his death; "he was editing a manuscript on his death bed, a scientist until the bitter end" according to Christof Koch.[8]

[Anonymous No.17023066]

The question of the soul is like the question of the axiom of infinity in mathematics.

[Anonymous No.17023081]

>>17022977
Those are credentials, not a proof nor even an argument.

[Anonymous No.17023182]

>>17022660
>Moreover, the Materialist ought to be asked what is the exact nature of that consciousness which he supposes to be exuded from the elements. For he does not admit the existence of any other principle apart from his four (or any number of) elements. He will perhaps try to define consciousness as consisting in the mere fact that the elements and their products are experienced. But then they would have to be its object, and it could not be a property of them at the same time, for it is contradictory to suppose that anything can act on itself. Fire may be hot, but it cannot burn itself, and not even the cleverest acrobat can climb up on his own shoulders. And, in the same way, the elements and their products cannot form objects of consciousness if consciousness is their property. A colour does not perceive its own colour or the colour of anything else. And yet there is no doubt whatever that the elements and their products are perceived by consciousness, both inside and outside the body. Because, therefore, the presence of a consciousness which takes the elements and their products as its objects has to be admitted, it follows that it has likewise to be admitted that consciousness is distinct and separate from them.