"As to HOW thought or awareness generates a new phenotypic trait , well first you need to show that thought or awareness DOES generate a new phenotypic trait . THEN you can begin to elucidate a mechanism . Till you show the effect you need to explain by a mechanism you have nothing to explain . ."
"so in order for me to win this debate I have to explain how thoughts turn into physical realities ? C'mmon . That 's what 's so damaging about these types of experiements ... such as the one with the spine-developing flea . You stick a predator near a bug or other creature , and amazingly new morphology develops -- either during development or even later in life . Snails , for example can grow larger when predators are around . Lots of things are like that . Fish , for example , in small fish tanks have a tendency to stay small , while the same type fish in very big tanks get much bigger . Thus , something inside the organism is putting the brakes on growth . But what is it ? Just because I can not point to this particular entity does not mean it does n't exist -- the evidence is right there in front of you that external stimuli is physically acted upon by the organism -- probably by way of a nervous system response . This is why science has forever ignored doing experiments on animals by changing their locations and checking for responsive , heritable phenotypic adjustments . They simply do not want to have to confront the notion that life changes non-materialistically -- that thought or awareness can start the process of physical change .... that there are causes to biological change . This concept of mind over matter is simply unexplainable by science because science is not interested in the mind -- or anything else that can not be measured or defined . If I raise my arm and then claim that there was a thought-command before hand , how would I ever prove to you that there was indeed a thought-command that caused the arm to raise ?"
"HOW thought or awareness generates a new phenotypic trait , well first you need to show that thought or"
"science has forever ignored doing experiments on animals by changing their locations and checking for"