quantumdude
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Originally posted by Lifegazer
Then you should note the significance of 'will', 'reasoning-awareness', and 'emotion' existing now.
If they exist now, then we have to say that existence had the potential for will, reasoning-awareness, and emotion ever before they would become made manifest through humanity, and that these attributes have re-emerged through time.
The only response I can think of is, "So what?" How does this fit into the context of the discussion here?
I put it to you that no singular system can fragment in such a way that the aforementioned-attributes come to exist in fragmented/finite form, unless those very-same attributes already exist within the whole of existence itself.
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I put it to you that if the parts of the whole can exhibit such attributes, then the universe as a singular-whole definitely must possesses them.
This reasoning is so bad that it has been given a name: The Fallacy of Composition
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/composition.html
I put it to you that the heart/source of finite and changing-existence, has will; knowledge; and is emotional itself.
Same fallacy, and just as easily dismissed.
The universe as a whole can be considered as the body of God.
It can also not be considered the body of god.
Disembodiment is an illusion of a finite-mind.
That's why I reject it.