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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (24178)	6/30/2006 12:32:05 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

You didn't have ideas before you were born. Ideas are simply concepts derived from sensory data. When you were a couple of months old your "ideas" were basically limited to your perceptions. Later, as your brain developed you began to develop the concepts of hurt, not hurt, hard, not hard, moves, doesn't move, quadratic equations, etc. Your "ideas" can be stopped with a simple snip from a scapel. Reality will still be out there. Others will still have enough neurons to interpret reality (have "ideas"). Whether they interpret it in black and white or in colour depends on the sense organs of the creature. If a baby is born without any of the senses (sight, hearing, touch, etc.) that baby will not have any "ideas" about rocks or anything else...