Answer quickly in 2 or 3 sentences to each question so I can get a sense of where you stand. Don't be afraid to be wrong. Don't copy paste. Use your own words. I won't hold them against you. Just trying to feel out where you stand.
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Why do humans see red?
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Can a computer see red, or only react to red light?
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Is it possible for humans to react to red light exactly as if they had seen red, without there being the accompanying experience of redness?
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Can a computer play chess?
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Can a submarine swim?
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When a dog, a human, and a shrimp look at red light, which of them experiences the true redness?
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A human buys paint at the store that is marketed as red. The human and his dog look at the paint, and the man sees red. Is the redness in the paint or in the human's mind?
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Do all atoms blindly obey gravity and electronagnetism?
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If all atoms blindly obey gravity and electromagnetism, why would evolution select for experiencing redness rather than merely reacting identically to red light?
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If all atoms blindly obey physical law, do you react to the red stop sign, or does the entire universe react to itself?
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Do you choose to stop at a stop sign, or are you merely obeying physical law?
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Why didn't evolution create you as a creature that reacts properly to stop signs, whilst being devoid of experience?
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What good are feelings for reacting when all of our atoms have to obey their script anyway?
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A repeat of question #3, is it possible for a human to react IDENTICALLY to a stop sign without there being an accompanying feeling of redness?
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If it is possible that we could have reacted, (i.e., survived), identically whilst being devoid of inner feelings?
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If it is possible that evolution could have created us to have identical behavior as we do now, (read: identical fitness), without us having any feelings?
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If all of our atoms are obeying their scripts, why did evolution equip us with the ability to "watch the movie" of our own lives play out when we can't do anything to change how it plays out, when we can't do anything to disobey physical laws even for a moment?
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Does watching, (feeling/experiencing), the story of our lives play out alter how it plays out?
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Does pain cause you to recoil your hand from a hot stove or does gravity and electromagnetism?
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If gravity and electromagnetism are sufficient to cause your hand to recoil from the hot stove, and it's possible to do so without the accompanying feeling of pain, what benefit is the additional feeling of pain for evolution to have selected for it?
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Do you need the concept of pain in order to explain your hand's recoil, or are gravity and electromagnetism enough?
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At what point does the sequence of atoms bumping into each other due to gravity and electromagnetism does pain enter the picture?
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Is pain made out of atoms or the behavior of atoms?
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If you can explain your hand's recoil with gravity and electromagnetism alone, does that mean pain doesn't actually exist?
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If you can explain how you called the paint "red" with gravity and electromagnetism alone, does that mean that "redness" doesn't actually exists, and only things like atoms, photons, and gravity and electromagnetism do?
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How do the concepts of evolution and natural selection explain the concept of redness?
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After you explain evolution and natural selection to a blind man, have you explained redness to him?
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When you touch the hot stove, is the pain in your hand, in your mind, or in your brain?
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What is the difference between the mind and brain?
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Are both mind and brain made out of atoms or the behavior of atoms, or only one of them?
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Do both brain and mind evolve, or only one?
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Do both brains and gravity cause your behavior, or only one?
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Do both brain and mind cause your behavior, or only one?
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[–] oprahfancIub 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
@eagleshigh, do you agree with the creationist's answers?