GaryGaulin
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| Quote (N.Wells @ Aug. 30 2016,20:11) | | Quote (GaryGaulin @ Aug. 30 2016,18:51) | Except for maybe you I do not know of anyone who believes in a deity that was disembodied from a once existing body. This is more like it, though some believe he is really a she:
Souls are said to retain their living bodily form. Although the theory is not evidence for such, it agrees by predicting that if intelligent souls do exist then their bodily form was somehow retained. |
Oh come off it: I did not say, "disembodied from a once living body". Disembodied can mean removed from a body, but it can also mean existing without a body ("separated from or existing without the body. Synonyms: bodiless, incorporeal, discarnate, spiritual"). Christians believe that their god is transcendent (meaning independent of and removed from the material universe) and incorporeal (John 4:24, "God is spirit."). Most modern christians also believe in immaterial souls separate from and surviving the body after physical death. |
In context of the theory: (at least) biological intelligence requires a body to control, or the intelligence cannot exist. In that case the best you get is a motionless disembodied brain that does nothing at all but maybe float around in a jar still with a past recollection of the itself once having a body.
It is not up to you to decide what the theory predicts in regards to concepts like "disembodied". And singularitarians know that they don't want to get trapped inside their brain. They need to be wired back into at least a virtual body that gives them new eyes and all else, or they want no part in that experiment.
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The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.
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