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• ESP, Psychic Spies and Extraterrestrials

  Mon May 14, 2012
  • Most myths don’t simply have a core belief, but usually have a set of powers as well. For soul belief you get the ESP powers. This is where they come from - not science. To soul believers ESP is completely plausible. Science says that brains are computing machines.

• ESP, Psychic Spies and Extraterrestrials

  Mon May 14, 2012
  • ESP, the real story…

• No 'God Spot' In Brain, Spirituality Linked To Right Parietal Lobe

  Mon Apr 23, 2012
  • Mythical Realms are not in Hardware I had a notable experience with my sister a few years back. She insisted that her brain contained the source of her belief in souls and god. She was futilely trying to explain her belief using a biological hardware explanation.

• The Christian Way to Deal with the Abortion Crisis

  Wed Apr 4, 2012
  • My goal here is not so much to draw the precise line of personhood, but to change the personhood debate from a meaningless biological problem, to a meaningful software problem.

• The Christian Way to Deal with the Abortion Crisis

  Wed Apr 4, 2012
  • A psychological disorder based on chemical problems, is a hardware fault, not a problem with software. Any time you have hardware and software near each other, there is going to be some ping-ponging in causation and responsibility.

• The Christian Way to Deal with the Abortion Crisis

  Wed Apr 4, 2012
  • Dakaiser,

• The Christian Way to Deal with the Abortion Crisis

  Wed Apr 4, 2012
  • What you’ve said seems reasonable, and I agree you need some hardware to make a person, but I’m not sure that hardware needs to be added into personhood itself.

• The Christian Way to Deal with the Abortion Crisis

  Wed Apr 4, 2012
  • dakaiser,

• The Christian Way to Deal with the Abortion Crisis

  Wed Apr 4, 2012
  • Uthaclena + dakaiser,

• The Christian Way to Deal with the Abortion Crisis

  Wed Apr 4, 2012
  • Fireryone + dakaiser,