If God Were a Car

Theists, if you can understand why I wouldn't buy a car from these people, then you can understand why I won't buy God from you. SHOW ME THE MONEY! You ever notice that people never argue for the existence of things that actually exist? Why is that? Maybe it's because that's fucking dumb. If it exists, and we know about it, then there's a definite - and usually easy - way to show it that is apparent to EVERYONE. Apologists are trying to sell the invisible/intangible car.

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[qwiksquirrel]

We know for a fact that you personality, consciousness, menories etc. Everything that makes you a unique person and not just a body, is entirely a product of your physical brain.

This is why we often see people's personality change after brain damage.

When you die, your brain stops working. As a result, everything within that brain is lost.

There is no speculation about this. Everything I just said is scientific fact. It can be observed and verified.

I make no claims. I state facts.

[qwiksquirrel]

How fucking retarded are you?

[ToastyKing69]

Title: If god were a car

Me: huh this will be pretty good*discovers a debate about neurology and what happens when you die* wow that escalated quickly.

[Graham Winchester]

god isn't anything. he can be whatever the fuck you want him to be.

[Graeme McRae]

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[qwiksquirrel]

In theory, yes.

But we are quite some way from having that sort of technology and even if we did it would be a monumental undertaking. It would be like manually reconstructing a massive server and hoping that you don't get a single 1 or 0 wrong.

But you would have to do it before death. After death you have no way of knowing how much or what kind of damage the brain has suffered.

Even being without air for a few minutes is enough.

[0mriphone0]

Yeah, but god isn't a car and thus not compareable to such a thing.

[Sekhat Temporus]

But if a brain was modeled in a computer, and the simulation was accurate enough, that a personality and conscious emerged from this simulated brain, how is it's conscious any different from our own? Because it's simulated? you'll view it as as something less despite it showing the same capacity for thought, reason and emotion as our selves, simply because it's a bunch of algorithms that happen to simulate a human brain accurate? To me, that consciousness would be the same as our own.

[Sekhat Temporus]

I fail to see where his reasoning is like "We are here therefore someone put us here".

He simply stated, that what makes a person a person, is contained within their brain. Observations that support this, is brain damage causing personality differences.

When you die, your brain stops functionality, it is safe to reason then, that what happens is you, your personality, ceases to exist and all that remains is a non-functional, broken body.

[Sekhat Temporus]

I've always wondered, how badly does the connections between neurons get damaged after death. I know the neurons themselves die, but could you not, theoretically, map a dead persons brain, it's connections and reconstruct it, thus essentially bringing a persons being back to life? Of course for that reconstructed brain to sense or experience anything, it'd need organs of some description to do so.

Not that any would try that if we had the tech, it's a bit morally gray.

[Grade3DrawTrigger]

I was expecting that to be said at any moment.

[murderskull0123]

I love that at the end, "there's no such thing as a Honda Prius."