Re: Athiests; a question.
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But obviously an unboron child somehow comes into existence froma non existent state. How would this be any different than a dead person being reborn? It seems that they would both be the same process,
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You walk by a tree and see a branch sprouting leaves. You walk by a petrified branch. Why can't the petrified branch sprout leaves?
Consciousness is an emergent property of a functioning brain. It's not 'inserted' and it's not on-off. There is a sliding scale of consciousness ( and self-awareness for that matter) and an entity can be 'a little bit conscious' and all the way up in any number of degrees of it.
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