>>12743233Everyone is relying on faith.
I trust that there is an external world, and that my senses convey to me some information about the external world. I also trust that physical reality is causal, that X can cause Y.
Then I use these three things I take on faith, and use them to perform experiments and analyse data.
When I see particular patients with particular brain damage, and I see how that affects their cognitive ability.
When I take a drug like caffeine, or if someone took a drug like alcohol, nicotine, amphetamines, etc etc etc, I (and they) can observe the effect that drug has on them. We can see how different drugs affect different parts of the brain using expensive imaging techniques.
What I take on faith is relatively simple, and science is an extension of that.
But to believe in a soul... simply because someone told me to? or because some book has it written down? That seems retarded to me.
If you could tell me some sort of experiment I could do, where you get result X if a soul exists, and result Y is no soul exists. Then I might believe a soul exists if we get result X. But you don't have such an experiment.
You childishly find some sophistry to justify a belief you hold.
Now let me reply to your post piece by piece:
>You think you are saying something profound but you aren't.I don't think im saying anything profound. I think im saying something that is obvious to anyone who isn't a complete retard.
>You both are just arrogant twats that rely on faith even more than I doI'm relying less on faith.
>>12743233>It's not even philosophy that's another bullshit institution. I could actually go further and say the school system and academia should stay the fuck away from the human mind because they are largely full of shit and constantly dehumanize people.It sounds like you're angry because scientists and most science academics don't believe what you believe.
