Different in degree or kind; language (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Thursday, January 01, 2015, 08:27 (3615 days ago) @ David Turell


> > Tony: 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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>DHW: Yes, but, how do you explain the events of the NDE while the brain is shown to be totally inactive? Eben Alexander, the academic neurosurgeon was in coma with flat line EEG for 7 days. (Proof of Heaven, 2012) His is a veridical experience, finding a sister in Heaven he did not know about. All the books I have mentioned strongly suggest that consciousness functionally survives clinical death.-Are you saying that all sensory and extra-sensory data processing occurs in the brain? That is quite an assumption. Cellular Memory would show that assumption to be erroneous as well. The brain is the focus of scientist because it is big, and obvious, and there, and because their reductionist worldview demands that there be one, and only one, central organ for handling our consciousness, despite the fact that after centuries of study we are no closer to finding consciousness than we ever were. People have lived quite normal lives, even absent 1/2 of their brain. -I suppose that what I am saying is, the concept that death occurs at the moment of the loss of brain function is not a sound theory.

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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.