New-age author and physician Deepak Chopra has offered prominent atheists such as Richard Dawkins a $1 million prize challenge to offer a scientific explanation for the biological basis of thoughts and ideas.They will hand him a Just So Story, demand their million dollars, and it will be up to Chopra to prove that it is not science. The term "science" has been made ambiguous by the very (non)discipline which invented it and needs it. Or he will be ignored or ridiculed.
Addressing what he called a "tribe of militant new atheists," naming Dawkins, James Randi, and Daniel Dennett, Chopra announced the challenge in a video uploaded on Youtube earlier this week.
"Can you please offer a scientific understanding for the biological basis of a first-person experience? Any experience – mental experience, or perceptual experience. So for cognition, or for perception. And I'll even make it more simple. Can you offer a scientific understanding for the biological basis of an idea, a thought?" Chopra asks in the video.
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"Just tell me how does electrochemistry produce a thought, an idea, and you get the million dollars. I will live up to this. But it has to be a valid, scientific explanation for the biological basis of an idea."
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I'm betting on ignored/ridiculed, although with that crowd, they will go for the Ad Hominem first. Mostly as a knee-jerk, though, because to attempt to create even a Just-So Story implies to even the stupidest of us that their position is, after all, debatable.
And coming from an unanswerable, undebatable position is their STARTING point. That it is "undebatable" because they choose not to debate it would be obvious.
It's something they simply won't risk, unless they're more corrupted than I thought.
I rather suspect we'll see both responses. Ad hominem and ridicule from lower-IQ atheists who will adamantly proclaim that because they don't understand the question, therefore Chopra's stupid; Just So Stories from those who do understand the question but realize they have no response apart from making shite up.
@Stefani
I've encountered that many times too.Atheists will claim they don't understand your proposal and then the discussion veers off into having to explain yourself in circles.Thus releasing them from any responsibility of burden of proof or rebuttal.
A classic case of red herring
I had one Atheist who "couldn't understand" any of the terms used, no matter how detailed the definitions were. After several rounds of explanation, I finally figured out that he was just a time waster.
Many of the low realm are merely internet vandals: destroy what you can and run. Time wasting, which is robot-like, is the lowest form, imo.
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