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Where in that article does it say that the self, that human consciousness, that a soul arises purely from the arrangement of particles in our bodies?
by couchand 3y ago
Where in that article does it say that the self, that human consciousness, that a soul arises purely from the arrangement of particles in our bodies?
- tsimionescu 3y agoIn the part where it says that all that there is in the universe that is perceivable at human levels of energy and scales is made out of particles in the standard model (dark matter doesn't interact in a way where it could influence us, and dark energy only has effects on extraordinarily large scales). All measurements and all experiments ever done with matter and fields confirm that it behaves according to the laws of quantum mechanics. Those laws leave absolutely no room for a self that is not an emergent phenomenon of some kind. They also don't leave room for something like a free will that allows "you" to control "your body" by your "will", which is what I assume you might mean by a soul. That is, they clearly show that me writing this reply could have been (in principle) foretold, or at least had a calculated probability.
- staticman2 3y agoI'm sure you weren't asking for a citation in good faith but instead making a rhetorical point, but here you go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism.