On Tue, 07 May 2013 06:39:02 -0400, PATRICK <
pbark...@woh.rr.com>
wrote:
>On Mon, 06 May 2013 22:32:18 -0400,
Silen...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 06 May 2013 18:36:55 -0400, PATRICK <
pbark...@woh.rr.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> Attila <<proc...@here.now> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>>Prove it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>It is only detectable by instrumentation involving the analysis of
>>>>>>brain activity unless you rely upon indirect evidence such as blood
>>>>>>pressure, and such indirect evidence can have other unrelated causes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Brain activity is an electro-chemical state involving one particular
>>>>>>brain and is not transferable to another brain by any known method.
>>>>>
>>>>>You are talking about symptoms, not evidence.
>>>>
>>>>It's all we have.
>>>
>>>Then stop claiming something if you can't back it up with verifiable
>>>evidence. Peer accepted, fully documented....
>>
>>"Symptoms" are evidence, rightard.
>>
>>Until the advent of the electron microscope, we couldn't see the
>>influenza virus, but we sure as hell could detect evidence (symptoms)
>>of an influenza infection.
>>
>>It's the same with emotion.
>
>Oh?
>So now you can claim you can SEE an emotion?
I'm claiming that we can detect evidence of emotion.
We've multiple, independent chains of evidence.
>What does it look like?
Increased electro-chemical activity in various parts of the brain.
Facial expression.
Observing external physical activity.
>Can you see and measure all emotions?
Measure, yes.
>How do you measure.... love, grief, joy?
By monitoring electro-chemical activity in various parts of the brain.
Observing facial expression.
Observing external physical activity.
And, correlating it with reports of emotion from the test subjects.
>Are your measurements verifiable?
Yes.
>Are they repeatable on various subjects?
Yes.
>>Measurements of electro-chemical activity doesn't definitively prove
>>that emotion exists, but it -is- evidence of something.
>
>Maybe it measures acceptance of God?
Perhaps.
Do you have any correlation in that regard?
>Or maybe an illness of ADD?
Perhaps.
But, it's strongly correlated with reports of emotion in the test
subjects.
Balance of evidence and all that...
>>Proof is for mathematics. Science operates on the balance of
>>evidence.
>>Now, where is your evidence for God?
>
>Measurements of electro-chemical activity
That's possible.
Do you have any reason to think that's the case?
Has that electro-chemical activity been correlated with anything
that's not temporal?
Because, we've solid correlation between electro-chemical activity in
the brain and emotion.
Balance of evidence and all that, rightard...
Balance of evidence.
Who knew all you rightard theist were really nihilists...