This is a neurological argument formulated against the existence of God.
God is an entity which is quite evidently the product of human minds due to the complexity involved in his conception. The Judeo-Christian God displays a lot of attributes including but not limited to: A mind, self-consciousness, awareness, will and the entire range of human emotions such as anger and love.
Minds, as neurologists understand them, are complex. Minds are the product of the correlation between billions of neurons in the brain.
Self-consciousness is remarkably complex because it relies on multiple components working together to paint a picture of awareness; in the case of our minds, it is our sensory organs connected to our brain via neural pathways. Will is the ability to decide. It is our brains that decide what we think and do; the front and center regions of the brain are responsible for decision making. Emotions also have a complex biochemical basis which involves the interaction of multiple chemicals such as serotonin and dopamine.
If the premises were formally stated, this argument would look like this.
1. God is a mind.
2. Minds are complex.
3. Minds are the products of human brains.
4. Therefore, God is not simple.
5. Therefore, God must be complex and the product of a human brain.
6. Therefore God does not exist in reality but only in human brains.
We can even extend this argument to include awareness, emotion, will and anything that brains do.
First we will argue that God is a mind. Since there seems no other logical choice, I think we should conclude that God is a divine mind whose thoughts and actions resemble humans.
In order for premise 2 and 3 to be correct, we must argue for physicalism, or the idea that the mind is part of the brain. Because physicalism has been demonstrated to be successful and we have a neurological understanding of how thoughts work, we can say that premise 2 and 3 are almost certainly true.
If physicalism is true then minds are not simple absolutes reigning outside the body but are products of complex neurological interactions which gives evidence for premise 4.
If God is not simple then he must be complex. Likewise, if a mind is the product of a human brain and nothing else, it would be logical to conclude that God as a mind is a product of a human brain.
If my argument works, it would imply that God as a divine mind would have to be a fully functional and complex brain. Therefore, God does not exist in reality but only in the minds of human beings. I also want to add that it’s only the strength, focus and desire of any human brain that makes miracles happen and that the word miracle is just used because science still hasn’t figured out how to explain it.
Think of teletransporting or bending metal with the mind, doing this few decades ago would have made you someone to adore for these special powers surely given by a God.
Einstein was one of the deepest and most logical minds ever existed in our times and he explained the existence of the soul (energy) and of God by describing the relationship between mass, speed of light and time.
It’s based on this superbly intelligent man that I confirm my own belief in the existence of God, beyond any ability and power of the human brain, (or mind) that do remain to be of paramount importance, especially given all the bad that keeps invading our daily lives.
It can only be through our own mind and intelligence that things can happen as we want, God is certainly omnipotent and always present but we are put on living earth alone and we leave it in the same way, so why would we expect a God to act in our lives for any reasons? We only are the ones who can make a miracle happen; God gave to us this power with the free-will.
Neurologist and neuropsychologists are illiterate people who convince themselves to know and understand God.
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