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#1472754
Muscle contraction guided by measurable impulses from the brain which can be duplicated. Several years ago I read about a man in Italy who was grafted with a functional bionic arm that could even receive signals while detached.
Medical science is some cool shit.
11/22/2012 4:33:36 AM
#1472772
Leighton Buzzard
My dog can pick things up off the floor as well. Does she have a soul, too?
11/22/2012 4:48:34 AM
#1472777
dylanstrategie
Physics cannot predict if you will pick up the rock because this has nothing to do with Physics
As for lifting the rock against gravity, it's because the rock is "light" enough for you to lift it
You're not lifting gravity when you lift a rock, but the weight of the rock (relative to gravity, the equation is W (weight) = M (mass) X G (That's gravity in the equation, exprimed in Newtons, 9.80665 m/s2 on Earth)). Dare you tell me it's anormal to lift in the air when it weights around 50 grams or so
11/22/2012 4:55:16 AM
#1472795
Iczer-four
wow.. what a fucking moron!
11/22/2012 5:15:26 AM
#1472804
Esquilax
Dude, your volition is not some crazy thing that defies physics. Your volition has nothing to do with physics, which concerns itself with measurable, PHYSICAL forces.
However, I'm sure there are plenty of psychiatrists who might be interested in why you keep throwing that rock. ;)
11/22/2012 5:24:52 AM
#1472805
gravematter
"Physics cannot predict when or EVEN IF I will pick up the rock."
Not yet. In the future, who knows? Determinism and quantum mechanics and... stuff...
The brain's mechanisms are still governed by the laws of physics. It's just that those mechanisms are extremely complex. But, in any case, this has absolutely nothing to do with gravity. You picking the rock up is a totally separate event to the rock falling to the floor. You can't say that gravity can't be proven by physics just because you've added an odd hypothetical future event to an observation of it. If I eat a cheese sandwich after an occurrence of nuclear fission, I have not thrown a spanner in the works into physicists' understanding of nuclear fission. You need to read a book on physics. And also one on philosophy.
11/22/2012 5:25:53 AM
#1472826
farpadokly
This is called dualism. A good argument against it is to remove or damage the brain of a subject and see how it effects his free will, and his ability to pick things up. After all, they're just brain cells, and brain cells are just matter, so it shouldn't effect his will or his decision-making.
11/22/2012 5:48:20 AM
#1472835
UHM
11/22/2012 5:57:48 AM
#1472836
LAchlan
Is it not energy released when ATP has a P removed and becomes ADP?
11/22/2012 5:59:15 AM
#1472872
Hugh G. Rection
I once picked up a hooker in Thailand. Wrap that rascal. Trust me on this.
11/22/2012 7:11:56 AM
#1472874
Stonespiral
You may as well claim volcanoes have a soul while you're at it. It would make the same amount of sense.
11/22/2012 7:15:03 AM
#1472877
KittyKaboom
If that kind of shameless stupidity were painful, people like you would die out.
You wouldn't be missed.
11/22/2012 7:18:47 AM
#1472878
breakerslion
Two out of three bald girls in the swimming pool say you'll do it.
Since the rock has no free will, your use of the word, "obey" is in error and contradicts your statement, "matter has no free will."
Your argument is word salad with ignorant dressing. Thanks for playing, better luck next time.
11/22/2012 7:19:58 AM
#1472921
Darwin
"So what exactly is the name of the force (which acts in a way science cannot predict) that lifts the rock doing the opposite of what gravity intended?"
No 'force', just a complex interplay of biochemistry and biophysics.
Next question...
11/22/2012 8:48:14 AM
#1472929
Thinking Allowed
11/22/2012 9:14:48 AM
#1472980
Computer guided machines can pick up rocks. They must have souls as well.
11/22/2012 11:02:08 AM
#1472992
Sasha
I can watch squirrels pick up acorns outside. Do they not have souls?
11/22/2012 11:14:39 AM
#1473002
Anon-e-moose
@UHM
And after Fluttershy has used her Massage-Fu on that polar bear to relieve it of the cunt-brained fundie-induced psychological stress*, please let Twilight Sparkle join you in that sentiment:
*- PROTIP: 'Stressed' spelled backwards is
Desserts. That's Pinkie Pie's department...! :9 X3
11/22/2012 11:39:27 AM
#1473013
fishtank
I see someone flunked physics.
11/22/2012 11:54:26 AM
#1473035
Sheridan
So what exactly is the name of the force (which acts in a way science cannot predict) that lifts the rock doing the opposite of what gravity intended?
my own free will/volition
You answered your own question. It still does not count as scientific proof for the existence of souls however.
Wouldn't a soul be hard for science to prove anyway? It being in the realm of the spiritual rather than the physical.
11/22/2012 1:17:21 PM
#1473051
Canuovea
Gravity doesn't intend anything. Gravity is an active force.
Physics deals with the applications of forces, not whether or not we choose to apply them.
So in the case of picking up the rock, physics isn't concerned with why you pick up the rock (that may be psychology), but rather with the mechanics of the action of picking up rocks...
11/22/2012 1:54:48 PM
#1473073
Prager
It's really sad that this acutally makes sense to lion.
11/22/2012 3:20:46 PM
#1473084
Seeker Lancer
Something that doesn't exist can't be proven by science.
That's because it DOESN'T EXIST.
11/22/2012 5:05:38 PM
#1473104
Tempus
People with damage to specific parts of their brain often undergo changes in intelligence and basic personality that are so radical that they might as well be different people.
Regardless of whether some part of the human consciousness that is capable of outlasting its physical brain actually exists, you are, at this moment, a fully-biological entity that rigidly adheres to the laws of physics, chemistry and biology, and is affected by them in turn. You are no more independent of the universe in which you dwell than a cat, a jellyfish, a stone or the Sun. Physics could give a damn whether or not you pick up the rock--it only concerns itself with whether it is actually possible for you to do so or not.
11/22/2012 6:43:24 PM
#1473123
Dunning-Kruger Syndrome, hard at work.
11/22/2012 8:11:24 PM
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