You can define a concept any way you like; you can define it out of existence if doing so comforts you in some way. Doing so changes little; nothing in God’s world is dependent on your definition, or your use of reason.
It ought not be that difficult to agree a definition of consciousness; something to do with awareness, I’d have thought. The difficulty for the natural sciences is that awareness isn’t a physical entity which can be examined objectively. Indeed, all of conscious experience is necessarily...
Science has tried and, so far, failed to identify how and why physical phenomena, such as electro-chemical activity in the human brain, give rise to the qualitative experience of consciousness. A different approach being developed by scientists such as neurologist Guilio Tononi Giulio Tononi -...
We’re not going to Mars. The only way in which “We will get there” is through the process which has already started; remote exploration via increasingly sophisticated technologies, which will not require humans to leave the earth. The prospect of manned space flight beyond the earth’s immediate...
How extraordinarily ungracious of you.
You mock simple people and their simple faith (not that @Ben Dhyan is simple), yet in truth they possess something of far greater value than all your supposed knowledge, and all your intellectual pride.
It's an absolute nonsense. Not only is there no breathable atmosphere on Mars, there's no electromagnetic field to protect astronauts from solar radiation. Astronauts on the International Space Station are subjected to radiation far higher than on the surface of the earth, and the effects on...
General Relativity defines gravity as a geometric property of space and time; spacetime is curved by proximity to mass and energy, so if we accept Relativity as a reasonable approximation of objective reality (rather than a functional abstraction) we can say space and time have substance, or...