Different in degree or kind; language (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Wednesday, December 31, 2014, 19:24 (3615 days ago) @ David Turell


> > Tony: The difference being that you believe in some form of eternally conscious soul, where as I don't. If a hard drive crashes and dies, it is still possible to recover the information off of the hard drive, but that in and of itself does not make the data active again. It simply means that the information is conserved.
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>David: You are using computer programming analogies, but our consciousness is far more than any computer will ever generate. van Lommel, the cardiologist from the Netherlands, in his book Consciousness Beyond Life, 2007, and Chris Carter in Science and the Near Death Experience /i], 2010, both think the brain acts as a radio receiver for consciousness, which in part is why I think of God as the universal consciousness. One can conceive of the soul as being a loan from God and returns to Him with death. The NDE's suggest the souls retain their identity. and are functional.-Yes, because the analogies fit, even if they are grossly simplified. The fact that DNA is a million times more complex than anything humans have written doesn't make it any less of a programming language. The fact that our consciousness is even more complex than that does not break the analogy either. Consciousness is a beautiful program with massive data storage and the whole nine yards, but a program, no matter how awe inspiring or complex, without a computer to run it is just a bunch of information, and that is my point.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.