How do you want to die?

[Kantor]

zexen_lowe said:

Kantor said:

SciFiBoy said:

Kantor said:

SciFiBoy said:

Kantor said:

SciFiBoy said:

what can a human being do that cannot be explained by our cells allowing us to do such things?

Think and act consciously, speak, use mathematics, etc.

And believe in religion.

Animals can't do any of these things, except perhaps the first. While this isn't definite proof for the existence of a "soul", it does show that we don't "know" very much at all regarding what makes up the human mind, and how it came to be created.

dont we have scientific theories for the first though? (I thought they were part of how our brains work?)

also, we ARE animals

Yes, we're animals, but we are clearly vastly superior to any other animal species in the world.

To such an extent that we worry about them. Do you see rabbits worrying about the financial crisis, or deer worrying about swine flu, or sharks worrying about global warming?

sure, but that doesnt mean that animals dont think or communicate, in fact it seems likely to me that they do.

They certainly think and communicate, but not to such a degree as humans.

But that's because human brain is much bigger (relative to body size) than any other animal

Size shouldn't really have very much to do with it. It's not that animals can do everything we can do, but not to such an extent: there are things that humans can do that animals simply cannot.

Now structure, that would have an effect. But how do we know that structure is purely biological? Or to be more accurate, purely physical?

If a machine were to make an exact clone of you (exact- down to every last cell and atom) and had you both, say, give a talk to an identical group of people in an identical room, would you make exactly the same talk both times?