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    Is the Concept of God Necessary To Explain Anything?

    I don't think so either, but that doesn't make me an atheist.
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    "The brain is just how the soul expresses itself"

    Well, what I meant is that you brought in the issue of awareness. If we are talking about decision making, then yes, we do have a pretty good understanding of how that works. However, to be aware of making a decision, there also needs to be an encoded representation of the decider. That's...
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    "The brain is just how the soul expresses itself"

    Well, you've just moved the goal posts - you were talking about "high level decision making" earlier. And people are already making a fortune out of that. Awareness is not the same as "high level decision making", but I think we nonetheless know a fair bit about how it works, in principle at...
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    "The brain is just how the soul expresses itself"

    Well, I think we are further than that. But we know a bit. Sure, there's lots that we don't know, but there are various ways we can tackle the question, and they are the subject of ongoing and already productive research. Of course I'm serious. I'm a neuroscientist myself, and I work in the...
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    "The brain is just how the soul expresses itself"

    I think that is way too pessimistic. We know a lot about the circuits implicated in executive decision making, and I'd say we know quite a bit about the kinds of logic gates that might be involved. What makes you think we don't?
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    "The brain is just how the soul expresses itself"

    It would look like re-ordering that person's neural system, including their retinal neurons, so that they could receive sensory data from a greater range of wavelengths, i.e. fixing the colour blindness.
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    Reality Cannot Be Directly Known So We Must Model It

    Yes, I agree. Moreover, I would say that we can only evaluate models on the basis of their usefulness, not on the basis of how closely they conform to reality, although how good their predictions are is one dimension along which they can be useful.
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    "The brain is just how the soul expresses itself"

    Well, if the postulated soul does anything, its existence should be demonstrable. If it doesn't do anything, then sure, you won't be able to disprove its existence, but it can hardly be held accountable later for what it did or didn't do.
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    Freewill compatible with materialism

    Well, I took more words to say it, but yes. Cheers Lizzie
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    Freewill compatible with materialism

    She also requested I register here to discuss the topic with you! And she's not easy to refuse.... I had exactly the same view until recently - in fact my justification for remaining a theist was that without some kind of dualism, there is no ultimate moral responsibility (which is NOT the...
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