Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Reducing Valve

The mind is a complex entity that is related to the brain via functionalism. Functionalism means if the brain is damaged in anyway so is the mind. Different parts of the brain correspond to different areas of how the mind reacts; so damaging a part of your brain could mean your eyesight, another part your short-term memory, another part your sense of smell.

For everything we experience in this world relies on our five senses that include sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. These senses create the "grand reducing valve" that is our only sources of input in this world. Creatures that exist in different senses are entirely unknown to us because we have no way of understanding or studying their existence unless they could interact with the senses we can visually comprehend.

I will put god in the senses that we are unable to study because of the reducing valve. God does not exist within our senses and the belief in such an entity proves scientifically impossible. Therefore anything that exists outside our senses is scientifically impossible and the only downside to science.
Think I’m wrong? Prove it.

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