Consciousness, identity, OBEs... (Identity)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Thursday, January 20, 2011, 03:02 (4842 days ago) @ David Turell

I would go further and say we have no answers ... just as we have no answers when we speculate on the nature of God. But from my agnostic standpoint, it's reasonable enough to consider the possibility of a God and the possibility of a soul, in which case it's reasonable enough to speculate on their possible nature. 
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> Paul Davies has produced a new book, a collection of essays, which seems to lead to the conclusion that the underlying force in the universe is information, which leads me to my own conclusion. Information in a computer is put there by intellect. The universe may be a form of a giant computer, which requires a universal intelligence and a universal consciousness to create the information in the computer. A review of the book:
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> http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/44680-I had no idea that Davies had this open of a mind. -I will fire out the obligatory Seth Lloyd plug where he demonstrated that mathematically, information most certainly can come from literally nothing... It's actually a cornerstone of Quantum Physics.

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