Science vs. Religion: (Chapter 6) (Humans)

by David Turell , Tuesday, August 09, 2011, 15:02 (4650 days ago) @ xeno6696


> I'm still not fully convinced... the year this happened I had a mouth FULL of metal. (Braces, headgear... the whole scary lot!) The only thing that keeps me skeptical is that I never had this happen more than once. -My radio event involving the tee shirt soaked in tea was a one time thing,but it happened. My wife is recurrent, less as she grows older with me. Your event is like the one I experienced and my wife has. 
 
> Agreed. Your book has at least done a better job of pulling my attention into these areas that I typically have ignored due to their necessarily subjective nature.-That is all I intended. I think something is in that realm, but more than that, who knows? 
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> > My view of consciousness is that it is an emergent phenomenon from a brain, the most complex item in the universe, and is related to the UI indirectly or directly.
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> Disembodied consciousness necessitates that there are two fundamental substances in the universe, mind and matter. I'm not discounting you here, but presenting you with the most direct challenge to your thought that you should consider in order to refine it. In what way can your thinking answer the challenges posed to Cartesian Dualism? I don't think it would be a fruitless exercise for either of us. -Here you are very much acting like my editor, and I appreciate it. My current concept is the UI is a part of everything, Spinoza-like: the information in plants and animals that aids their living state. Our individual minds are part of the UI but without a full connection. We have free will, the UI doesn't control us, but we tend to have all those religions that assume a greater power.
The theologic philosophers refer to the UI as a necessary being. I'll give it more thought. And thank you.