If we are made of atoms' how can atoms think?

You may mention other related excuses like electrons or something in that category

but the bottom line is' we are all comprised of atoms. and If I'm right' nothing else,

and why can't a flower think....its made of atoms

If we are made of atoms' how can atoms think?
Humans do not know if atoms can think because we cannot communicate with individual atoms. The same could be said of flowers, or whales.



Those who believe that all thoughts are nothing more than chemical reactions in the brain cannot explain how a Zen Master can stop all conscious thoughts and still perceive with the physical senses. They would like to believe that thoughts and memories and emotions are nothing more than cellular organization.



Those who believe in nothing more than the physical part of the Universe (matter and energy in a space-time continuum) will always come up with answers devoid of spirit or soul. For them, thoughts are processes in the brain and the brain is made of cells which contain molecules and compounds composed of atoms.



Other cultures have different beliefs. Some humans believe that thoughts can be controlled or suspended. This leads to a greater awareness of the Universe, one in which atoms only play a supporting role as building blocks for matter and nothing else.
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Reply:Terrific question.
Reply:You're asking a question that's been pondered for ages by scientists and philosophers alike. But I'd like to point out that just because we think and are made of elementary particles it doesn't necessarily follow that the particles themselves "think" so to speak. Certain arrangements and interactions of many particles may be what gives rise to thought or the illusion of thought (is there a difference even?), like an emergent property. For example, temperature is an emergent property. The air my feel warm but that is only due to the excitation of the air molecules, the individual atoms that constitute the air molecules do not have temperature in the traditional sense. Computer scientists, in their efforts to create AI, believe that intelligence can arise out of complexity. Our current understanding of existence is not sufficient to answer this question at the moment, we can only ask more questions.
Reply:How do you know a flower doesn't think? Are you really so sure.
Reply:thats a good question man...



does that mean every living thing has the ability of humans, to THINK?
Reply:This is not a physics question - I would suggest bio-chemistry . However, we are not just atoms but a complex conglomeration of billions of atoms. Just like a computer is made of slices of silicon - each fragment of silicon on its own will not affect an electric current but when part of an integrated circuit can form a complex machine. Similarly our bodies use atoms and molecules to interact with elctrical impiulses whioch we interpret as thought. Which just shows that quite often the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Reply:atoms make up things called "brains"



maybe yours didnt form as much as us normal intelligent folk - ha
Reply:Team work, all atoms work well in teams. The flower atoms prefer not to think as we do, but they have to grow and reproduce so some form of thought process is there. A short answer there.
Reply:its how they are made up , e.g , timber and blocks in a pile , a flower , timber and blocks made up differently , a house
Reply:Atoms don't think -- brains do.

Flowers don't have neurons.
Reply:hold on a second........damn it that hurt and by the way it was just now on the bookshelf.
Reply:Your brain is composed of trillions of neurons all of which are stuffed into the connective tissue of the brain.



Higher mammals like us, whales, dogs, cats, dolphins, etc...



...all have a complex organ called the brain...



It's the "organization" of the brain that makes it special, NOT the "atomic structure" of it...



Everything is made of atoms, but not everything has the complex organizational structure that our brains have...



And THAT is why we think, but a flower doth not...
Reply:A brick can't give you shelter, but a house made of them can.



Flower thought is different, but its very powerful. Flowers propagate and survive, and they don't destroy the planet as they do so. I prefer the way flowers think to the way people think.
Reply:It's how those atoms interact that makes all the difference.
Reply:deep question...the mind will never be able to comphrend itself !!!
Reply:Because those atoms are arranged into a biological computer (the brain) that becomes programmed to undertake thinking processes.



Flowers don't have this brain.
Reply:Atoms are all different and when combined make different things...on a philosophical standpoint you may say that we don't think. We're just atoms whirring around in our head.
Reply:Who says flowers don't think?! You take enough acid and anything is possible.
Reply:The mathematician Roger Penrose, has suggested that certain aspects of thought are quantum mechanical in nature. Although mankind has made great medical advances we do not as of yet fully understand how the human brain works. The brain is indeed made up of atoms combined into molecules, which in turn go into making the myriad cells. The thought process is known to be 'parallel' with many parts of the brain contributing to the perceived thought. Plainly the brain is a massively parallelled electrochemical computer but we do not understand the final step - that of how we actually think! Perhaps if you ask this question again in twenty-five or so years somebody may be able to answer it fully and explain how atoms contribute towards the thought process.
Reply:the atoms dont do the thinking there are difrent types of atoms in us and in our head (brain) the diffrent atoms mean diffrwent chemicals and we think by a series of chemical reaction everything you do is a cauze of a difrent chemical reaction e.g. a head ache is a chemical inbalance

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