Originally posted by Deeviant
A couple things. First we already have a very clear example of how molecule(s) can store information. You are using a device that applies this technology as we speak.
The fact that something works gives no explanation how it works.
Science does not have to pretend to know the answer, it is okay and infact encouraged to admit what we do not know. The exact physiological process of memory is poorly understood, yet there is a great deal of research currently being conducted on this process. There are also some very informed scientific hypotheses as to the process of human memory. All these hypotheses involve a purely physical process.
And none of them explain how, maybe its because they try to explain it from a purely physical process.
Atoms seem to be irreducibly complex to who? You? Are you saying anything made from atoms is also irreducible. If I were to write this on paper, these words would be nothing but light reflecting off atoms, would that make these words also irreducible?
What i am saying is, tring to explain thought on the atomic scale, as if atoms were objective reality, makes no sence. We divide the brain into smaller and smaller pieces, to reach a correct conlcusion to explain, thought, emotions, consciousness, with no result. We divide matter, molecules, atoms to particles and end up with wave patterns. Is it because everyting seems to be reducible to irreducible wave paterns?
I think you have more than a few flaws in your line of thought.
