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Re: Consciousness as a function of mental word use

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Originally Posted by lemit View Post
Larv,

It sounds like you might be close to an acceptance of the concept of evolution, that our brains may be animal rather than spontaneous productions of the hand of God.

Congratulations!

--lemit
Oh, and it gets even better. There is Biblical proof for what I claim; it's in John 1:1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, the Word was God." This proves, to me at least, that "the Word," or our symbolic language, was what made us human and gave us the need to invent a literal master. John 1:1 does not differentiate "the Word" from "God." They are one in the same, according one author of the Scriptures.

I submit this as Exhibit A that modern humans didn't show up until their predecessors evolved a symbolic language. Not only that, but it was a digital language: "the Word" is a byte and each letter is a bit. As such, God is digital, too, literally lording himself over his analog subjects.

If it were otherwise then why would John equate a byte of our digital symbolic language with the omnipotent Lord of the Sky?


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