Atheist Asserts Conscious View

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M9E6hUY740

Atheistic theory of consciousness, as based on this video.

By the way, go home, person who did this video. "The argument fails because it doesn't support a particular religion." This is just a theistic argument, meaning an argument for God. Not a religious argument.

"Awareness evolved to make sense of feelings"

"Consciousness evolved to allow organisms to respond more efficiently to their feelings."

First off, this person asserts that there is no evidence that consciousness can exist without a brain. That is not true. But the people who insist that they have experienced consciousness while dead or remember experiences from past lives, are scorned and ridiculed. There was a book I read called The Scalpel and the Soul by Allan J Hamilton, a neurosurgeon (fantastic read), where he described an incident where a woman was put under and her brain was shut off, and she could recall pieces of conversation from the doctors while she was out.

My question for atheists here is, what would this kind of evidence look like to you? If there was consciousness without a brain, how can you prove it? What would valid evidence look like?


Why do you need awareness to make sense of feelings? Does a computer need awareness to process input? Why does an animal requre awareness, and a computer does not?

That's the question. Quit it with the non answers.

"Respond more efficiently"

So, if there is sensory input that suggests pain, the organism responds more efficiently if it has awareness to feel this pain. So if you have a leg injury, the awareness will tell you not to use the leg, whereas with lack of awareness, you will still use it or use it a little bit. Or, be more efficient with not using the leg and remaining healthy.

EXPOUND PLEASE! Is what I am getting at.

Anyway, so with awareness, it creates drive. There is a DRIVE not to use the leg. There is DESIRE to remain pain-free. And DRIVE and DESIRE spurs into ACTION!

Or, more efficiently speaking, results.

What happened to the species in this situation that were not conscious?

There was a repeated signal sent to the brain to abstain from using the leg. It got sent everytime the organism desired to walk. The organism wanted to walk (wanted without consciousness, so there was some sort of survival mechanism in place telling the organism to walk), and the organism kept switching gears everytime the signal reminded the organism not to walk.

That's what happened.

Then, the organism starved to death. Because it kept getting a signal to walk to food and kept being reminded that the leg wasn't working.

What happend to the conscious being?

It slithered to food.

Why didn't the unconscious being slither to food?

No reason.

Bingo.

Anyway, I'm trying to give this shit show video credit. "Awareness evolved to make sense of feeling." Well, computers must have awareness, because they make sense of signals.

There you go. Computers have awareness.

Anyway, so what we have here with this argument that this guy is presenting that it is the DRIVE and DESIRE that create results.

This points to the idea that there may have been DRIVE and DESIRE at creation, which spurred existence into play. Obviously, drive and desire create better results!