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Paradox found: a fully supernatural phenomenon even atheists and skeptics believe exists even though there is zero objective evidence
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Supernatural:(of a manifestation or event) attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature.
Consciousness is the ultmate paradox. It is our most intimate experience, yet its existence is a complete mystery and the very definition of supernatural.
Nothing in the laws of physics, chemistry, or biology suggests that it should be there. Although there have been enormous strides in understanding the neurological correlates of consciousness, the various functions in the brain that facilitate it, science still cannot explain in the least what it's doing there in the first place. Although there is no way whatsoever to objectively prove that it exists, even atheists and the most diehard skeptics readily accept its existence.
I find it fascinating that the thing we are most intimately familiar with is also the most mind-blowing. Paradox found.
Quoting: Just B. 71175743 The proof is in the pudding. Just because something is not understood or is mysterious, that doesn't mean it is "supernatural." In the year 1900 manned flight would have been thought to be a supernatural phenomenon by many -- it wasn't. It's supernatural because its existence is beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature, just like the definition states. Face it, the only reason we have to believe it exists at all is because it is fundamental to our experience, not because anything in science predicts it's existence. That's supernatural and just because admitting such scares the willies out of atheists and skeptics because they think it would be the camel's nose under the tent as far as their foodfight with theists goes, that doesn't change the fact that as per the definition, consciousness itself is fully supernatural. To deny it in the face of clear counterevidence is not a rational reaction, but an emotive one.
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