If something can't be proven....

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Yeah, no. This particular field of neuroscience has been covered pretty well

Yes they do! fMRI scans show particular regions of the brain being active while we experience each emotion. Here, read this article:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/19/4445684/brain--scan-fmri-identify-emotion

nothing can be proven.
what is said to be "proof" can really only be "sufficient evidence" in order to convince a mortal intellect. that is why i think "the universe" is BS

It would have to be a very big bull to make a pile the size of the universe. Hmmm, would each pile of droppings correspond to a new universe... hence a multiverse consisting of poop?

I think 'sufficient evidence' is fine. If it works, I don't see a problem. All the theories and all the maths could at some point turn out to be completely wrong. But until they stop working for humans, I don't see the problem. My starting point is that the universe (in terms of existence) is under no obligation to make sense to us, be it through common sense or our abstract theorising. That it does to the extent it does is remarkable.



An expansionist/inflationist theory of universal BS?

The basic issue is that if something doesn't have evidence in it's favor, the default position to hold to it's existence is non-existence. So, I have no evidence of a winged unicorn eating pizza somewhere in Chicago, nothing in my inferences even suggests this is likely the case, so therefore I should not think one exists, and instead default to one not existing. If somebody provides evidence of this being the case, then my opinion on this should shift.

Its called "Russell's Teapot".

Betrand Russell said "I could assert that there is a teapot careening through space between Mars and Jupiter, and the fact that noboby can disprove its existence does not prove that the teapot exists!"

But Russell's teapot got knocked over by Shrodinger's Cat one day, and it made such a clatter that it caused Occam to cut himself with his razor!

Aw I was gonna say something similar

I believe in the teapot.

You are all invited to a tea party, but don't be late!

Is that a betting slip in his hat?

If something cannot be proven or disproved, then is simply have no place in rational inquiry. There is no need to have a 'default' position because such 'thing' never enters the picture to begin with.

In fact we ARE mindless zombies, per-programmed to have the delusion of 'soul'.



Define emotion.



Of course, the woo-ist simply assert 'emotion' of 'consciousness' or whatever is anything but these - until we run our of anything comprehensible.

I dont believe in Skydadies or sky fairies or magicial invisible men called god! I dont belive in devils either or the idea humans were made of mud and ribs!

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I disagree. Personally, I'm a pretty mindful zombie. There has to be a mind for there to be a delusion. I can't delude a duvet.

i added the second sentence in partial jest. i guess i could say something about raising the tale (tail) of the constellation taurus in order to truly experience the guts of it, but i do not often joke in that manner.