[extropy-chat] Atheism in Decline

[Dirk Bruere]

Joseph Bloch wrote:

> Dirk Bruere wrote:
>
>> The gestalt formed during a Ouija game is an emergent phenomenon 
>> arising from the group interaction and can certainly pass the Turing 
>> Test.
>> Gods ditto.
>> Of course, I could have been hallucinating when I thought I saw the 
>> planchette spelling stuff out...
>
>
>
> More likely, you (or someone you were playing with) was moving the 
> planchette, consciously or unconsciously.
>
*OF COURSE IT GETS MOVED UNCONSCIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!* - 
that's the whole point.
It's called the ideomotor response.
And how likely is it that in *every* game of Ouija ever played someone 
was *always* cheating?

> Your subconscious does not an "emergent phenomenon" deity make.
>
Mine doesn't - on its own.
But it does when many are involved in a cooperative enterprise.

-- 
Dirk

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