2 thoughts on “Was “I” Never an Embryo?”

1. Cathy Quinlan on Facebook:

   Molecules are inert (non living) chemicals that, in the human brain, act as neurotransmitters which relay sensory input into the living cells in the area of the brain that processes that information and allows us to interpret it to determine it’s nature and an appropriate response. Without living, functional cells in the processor area life as we know it cannot exist

   You seem to be saying in part that nothing that lacks a developed brain can be alive. But perhaps I’ve missed something – ?

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2. Nathan Nobis on Facebook:

   The weakest reasons were given to think that “the physical particles and physical forces that presumably constitute the substrate of those phenomena [the beginnings of a body?]” were YOU.

   No Termination without Representation:

   It’s understandable that you thought my reasons were weak, because you seem to have understood “those phenomena” to refer to “the beginnings of a body”. But I had written, “subjective phenomena of the mind (memories, for instance…” THAT is what “those phenomena” refers back to.

   Nathan Nobis:

   molecules don’t have that. Molecules can combine to form the substrate of something with that though, but the initial molecules don’t.

   No Termination without Representation:

   Of course the initial molecules don’t. But after that “subjective phenomena of the mind” sentence in my article, I wrote my 1, 2, 3, 4. See especially my 3.

   It now seems to me that you simply haven’t understood my argument yet. To test this supposition, please “Tell me what you think I think until I think that what you said reflects what I said.”

   If in fact you haven’t understood me, I take full responsibility for that. No doubt I wasn’t clear enough. But the exercise I have requested of you should make it clear to me where I failed.

   Once you have understood me, you may well object, but if you object to something I haven’t said, this will go nowhere.

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