[jonathan lall]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

I can then run the FGIF SW everyday of my life, and there is no way you could study the cells of my brain and find the SW in there

Not yet there isn't. But inferring from what we do know scientifically, it is more conceivable to suggest the FGIF algorythm is stored chemically in the brain. To suggest otherwise can only be premised upon a belief in the supernatural, that the brain is "magical," which is simply your stance in the first place. A circular argument.

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

There is a branch of science that deals with this: information technology. Physics is not involved at all. You cant apply force to information - it does not accelerate - it contains no mass or energy, but information does exist

It certainly does exist. In a tangible form somewhere. Locked up in a computer or locked up in the mind, it does not transcend the laws of nature and physics.

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

an example of information defying the laws of physics would be prayer. We are physical beings - we can only communicate with each other by putting information into some physical form - but the concept of praying - that God can know what we are thinking, that we can communicate 'telepathically' with God starts to open some insight

This is of course based upon a rather hefty conditional premise, and is thus a bad example. But humouring you, I could just as easily say that God created a law of physics such that prayer was instantaneous. It cannot be proven either way, therefore you cannot say this is untrue.