Consciousness is a Biological Problem

As I view it, physical laws, as they are perceived during any period of time, are a manifestation of consciousness

Some 'fill in the blank with the word that will make u comfortable" , I will say mysterious force, drives that sperm to accomplish its task.

And this perspective is an unadulterated matter of faith.

Sperm are cells, cells with even a nucleus. Like many cells, they perform a function. The function of sperm cells is to combine with egg cells to fertilize and begin the creation of a diploid.

If you think sperm cells are driven by a "mysterious force", then you must find every cell that performs a function to be driven by a "mysterious force". The cells that contribute to the contraction of your heart, the cells that contribute to your sense of touch, swallowing, seeing, smelling, digestion etc. Every cell in your body, hell, a good chunk of cells on earth, are performing functions. There's nothing unique about sperm cells in this regard.

Sperm are cells, cells with even a nucleus. Like many cells, they perform a function. The function of sperm cells is to combine with egg cells to fertilize and begin the creation of a diploid.

If you think sperm cells are driven by a "mysterious force", then you must find every cell that performs a function to be driven by a "mysterious force". The cells that contribute to the contraction of your heart, the cells that contribute to your sense of touch, swallowing, seeing, smelling, digestion etc. Every cell in your body, hell, a good chunk of cells on earth, are performing functions. There's nothing unique about sperm cells in this regard.

The force is consciousness that is putting the whole work together. It is pretty nice to see what consciousness can do when it puts its mind to it. Give your consciousness some credit for all that it has done. I certainly love my consciousness.

It is the same consciousness that creates buildings, sculptures, laboratories, and all of the other things we see in our every day life.

Zeth, what exactly do you mean when you say, " the function of" ??? What causes them to desire or strive to perform this function?

You dont have to go there but you know what you are avoiding just by saying that.

Sperm cells are not conscious as we would call a human conscious. They are alive, no doubt, but not conscious as we know it. Consciousness comes after the fact and is a synergy, a complex interwoven phenomenon most likely dealing with the brain.

People build buildings, sculptures, and laboratories. So unless you're using consciousness as a synonym for "people", I have absolutely no clue what you're talking about.

They are just that way. Just like a computer program can perform a series of functions, so too do cells. There is no striving or desiring, just as there is no striving or desiring of computer programs. They perform their function. That's it.

You're essentially asking me who's the engineer, the artificer/artifice relationship, and I don't feel like going there with you.

As I might suggest is your perspective.

You firmly believe in materialism and determinism.

Your answer to the question is " they just do that" . Im sorry but thats just not even worth going any farther with.

The difference is that my perspective can be objectively corroborated.

Bullshit, I believe nothing of the sort.

Observe your consciousness at work

That function that they are performing is the work that is courtesy of the consciousness of those who designed it. Nice job I would say.

Also, while you are at it, you may want to congratulate yourself on how much your own consciousness can accomplish.

That's impossible. Things cannot observe themselves.

So there's some sort of ethereal consciousness which 'programs' each and every cell to perform a function? Anyone else you know of share this fantastical opinion?

Congratulating myself for no reason is a bit arrogant, isn't it?

All too well, my friend, all too well!

Oh, wait, I'll make you happy:

There is a God!

I have no idea what this has to do with this topic .

If you are intimating that I am a theist, you are wrong, I am an atheist.

But you believe, like rich, that there's an engineer (call it what you want, force, god) that is driving sperm cells to fertilization?

There is a force. There has to be a force, or do you think it moving without force?

Rich

This kind of force: Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That is, a Newtonian, scientific interpretation of force.

But no ethereal engineering consciousness'.

But you believe, like rich, that there's an engineer (call it what you want, force, god) that is driving sperm cells to fertilization?

And what do you think causes the sperm cell to seek the egg? you cannot simply say that is just the way it is. Something is causing the sperm cell to seek the egg. What is it?