(Balance!) Consciousness, identity, OBEs... (Identity)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Friday, January 21, 2011, 08:44 (4843 days ago) @ xeno6696

First, I never said that 'mind' was immaterial, which is one of the major differences between my point of view and standard Dualism. I think we covered this topic in some depth in our discussion of God as organized energy, which is no different than what I view 'mind' or soul to be. Energy is very physical, and thus there is no interaction problem between an energy form and the brain, which is by design quite adept at manipulating and responding to energetic influences.
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> Your explanation is still caught; in order for us to do computations using entanglement, we need supercold. (Right now superhot could only have happened during the big bang.) Computations are the minimum set of operations that our minds can perform. So any explanation of entanglement as a linkage between energy and physicality needs to overcome this barrier. The amount of energy in our bodies is nearly 600 degrees too warm and at least 2400 degrees too cool for entanglement to be of any use. 
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> We know that we don't have a cloud of energy following us around outside of what we radiate as heat. 
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> So where is this energy located?-
a) Who said anything about computations?
b) Why would linkage via quantum entanglement require computation?
C) We are at all times surrounded by a resource of energy so vast as to completely stagger the mind. As discussed in another thread sometime back, every single physical thing in this universe is connected via energy. 
D) My main point in all of this was to point out the arrogance of making a statement that a 'soul' or metaphysical connection to the physical form as impossible is based solely on a complete and utter ignorance of the nature of reality and consciousness. It was never intended to be an actual proposal of an explanation. 
E) I posited quantum entanglement as one example of information transference not requiring a signal to counter an argument that some study said they detected no signals. As quantum entanglement does not transmit information in anyway that we can currently detect, it automatically disqualifies the study saying that there is no signal by the simple of of demonstrating that information can be transmitted over vast distances almost instantaneously without a signal.