student vs professor

[Bahamut-X]

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Man, I was like WHAT THE HELL when I read the statement about the professor's brain. Ridiculous comparison. After reading some replies I see how you could say both sides have flaws.

[Specforces]

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I agree, and I never meant to say that there's no higher power. I simply disagree with the manmade assumptions about higher powers.

Bingo, hail satan.

[GuidoHunter]

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To suggest that the teacher hasn't a brain because it hasn't been seen is simply put the worst argument for anything I've ever heard. There exists evidence in the fact that EVERY SINGLE PERSON EVER to be examined, has a brain. It is known that without a brain, a person would be unnable to live. Because of this, it is safe to assume that every living person has a brain.

Ah ah aaaaaahhh... You're not thinking philosophically here. Sure, it's reasonable to assume, but assumptions aren't at all connected with proof in philosophy. Ever heard that it's impossible to prove something (besides mathematics)? Well, it is. Can you prove that the keyboard in front of you exists? Can you prove that your brain exists? In order to do these things you have to prove that everyone's not having a mass hallucination in all their senses simultaneously. But then you can call into question the existence of everyone else, and so the only thing you can really prove is your own existence, just like Descartes did, "Cogito ergo sum."

Scientifically, a convergence of evidence will prove scientifically that the teacher has a brain, but it won't be able to scratch the surface on whether or not he truly has a brain, in the philosophical sense.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Afrobean]

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rofl

You just wanted to say something that makes me wrong, didn't you.

Philosophically, you can argue for all kinds of silly ****. That doesn't mean it's right, or even that anyone would realistically believe it.

And if they did believe it, they'd simply be labeled as delusional.

And yeah, there's no such thing as objective proof, but why ignore subjective proof? Who cares if everyone is mass hallucinating? As long as we're all hallucinating the same thing it really doesn't matter at all.

[Yanah_God]

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There's no point in trying to convince others to stop believing in their religion. The time that they decide what they'll believe is way before the time they're going to start debating it.

The funny thing is that whenever someone argues one point or another, they always end up contradicting what THEY believe. Yes, you can say that faith in religion is faulty, but then you're also saying faith in physics and theories of how the universe work are faulty.

Always gives me a good laugh.

[Tokzic]

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What gets me is that this is in Critical Thinking. It's a cute little story designed to put a smile on the average Christian's face when they get it forwarded to them in their e-mail. Not worth the thought people have been giving it if you ask me.

[liljj_701]

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i actually liked it, so what if he copied and paste it on there it was good.

[duhh_]

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Ah ah aaaaaahhh... You're not thinking philosophically here. Sure, it's reasonable to assume, but assumptions aren't at all connected with proof in philosophy. Ever heard that it's impossible to prove something (besides mathematics)? Well, it is. Can you prove that the keyboard in front of you exists? Can you prove that your brain exists? In order to do these things you have to prove that everyone's not having a mass hallucination in all their senses simultaneously. But then you can call into question the existence of everyone else, and so the only thing you can really prove is your own existence, just like Descartes did, "Cogito ergo sum."

Scientifically, a convergence of evidence will prove scientifically that the teacher has a brain, but it won't be able to scratch the surface on whether or not he truly has a brain, in the philosophical sense.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

i think you are the only one who somewhat understands the meanings behind this thread.

[Iam_a_Maid]

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As I started reading about evolution bit, I stopped.

[TK_Bakonfat69]

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Why because you can't accept that your great(x a lot) grandparents were monkeys? I actually believe we evolved from water. You know how the human body is a lot of water? Yah, that is because we were water once. WE aren't even living. It's a fact. It is science.

[Hr2]

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What a dumb prof, if he couldn't stop that student, then let me take his job, because I could probably have torn him a new asshole.

Have you seen someone's brain? No, but since everyone who is born without one is born dead, it is QUITE ****ing easy to infer that it exists.

[Ryusei_]

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What a dumb prof, if he couldn't stop that student, then let me take his job, because I could probably have torn him a new asshole.

Have you seen someone's brain? No, but since everyone who is born without one is born dead, it is QUITE ****ing easy to infer that it exists.

You're not looking at the from a philisophical point of view, like it was stated previously.

Ah ah aaaaaahhh... You're not thinking philosophically here. Sure, it's reasonable to assume, but assumptions aren't at all connected with proof in philosophy. Ever heard that it's impossible to prove something (besides mathematics)? Well, it is. Can you prove that the keyboard in front of you exists? Can you prove that your brain exists? In order to do these things you have to prove that everyone's not having a mass hallucination in all their senses simultaneously. But then you can call into question the existence of everyone else, and so the only thing you can really prove is your own existence, just like Descartes did, "Cogito ergo sum."

Scientifically, a convergence of evidence will prove scientifically that the teacher has a brain, but it won't be able to scratch the surface on whether or not he truly has a brain, in the philosophical sense.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

This statement, out of most of the ones made here, makes the most sense to me and also explains the brain comment that everyone seems to be complaining about.

[Kaouri_of_the_wind]

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I think that the student makes a wonderful argument, even if some of the comparisons are a little off to most. *ahem*. I don't beleive that rediculous "ya gotta see it to believe it" crap. Many things we know are there but we don't see it. During anceint times, when peope didn't understand something, they made up stories to explain them. If you think about it, we are STILL doing that, how do we really know about molecules and atoms and stuff. Just because some guys in a lab say so doesn't mean its beleivable. So doesn't God get a chance? I think we all have serious problems and are too proud to admit it.

[Squeek]

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Er, there's a difference.

See, let's take lightning. Lightning used to be an act of an angry god. So the townspeople took that as a sign that they were doing something wrong.

Now we know what lightning is, and we know there's no god involved at all.

To put it bluntly, people from hundreds / thousands of years ago were idiots. Before Newton came along, most people assumed things they didn't understand happened because some god was messing with their lives. Then Newton comes in and he forces people to look at things in a logical, experimental point of view.

By the way, bumping old discsussions is generally frowned upon, but I was looking for an excuse to repeat this argument my science professor told my class on the first day.

[jewpinthethird]

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