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Just more evidence pointing to the glaring truth that the mind arises from the brain, and that if there is anything like a soul then it disintegrates away withi
by rustcleaner 2y ago
Just more evidence pointing to the glaring truth that the mind arises from the brain, and that if there is anything like a soul then it disintegrates away within minutes, hours, and days after cessation of cardio-respiratory processes.
Remember this fact before making big decisions. You only have this now for a short while, and then it's back to the pre-conception infinite void.
- cooolbear 2y ago> Just more evidence pointing to the glaring truth that the mind arises from the brain, and that if there is anything like a soul then it disintegrates away within minutes, hours, and days after cessation of cardio-respiratory processes. Is it ...?
- rustcleaner 2y agoIs recognizing your mother's or spouse's face a spiritual/soul function? If the mind did not arise from the brain, how does one explain lesions in the fusiform face area making one unable to recognize faces? This is without blindness, you see everything and go about your day normally. It's just that the meaning of faces may as well be kanji characters in hanzi-land and all you know is English.
- cooolbear 2y agolook before you leap my friend
- standardUser 2y agoHas there ever been one iota of hard evidence for the existence of a soul? I've always categorized the idea of soul the same way as the Greek gods. Fanciful nonsense with no basis in reality.
- rustcleaner 2y agoI too conclude as much. I used to be christian until I read revelatians and realized it was classic mafia racketeering. I went full bore after discovering Conway's Game of Life, that it was Turing complete (and what that means), then Stephen Wolfram and his principle of computational equivalence. I can see exactly how I am a living computational program encoded and processed in a 3D particle automaton, I can see how from a few simple rules, simple systems, you get complex behavior no less complex than the Intel sitting on your desk can produce. When I read revelations, I felt god was an egomaniac if he actually cared for humanity at all. The perfection of the clockwork universe contrasts with the imperfection of the human spiritual and material conditions. Such a god is a bastard for punishing you for doing what you were destined to do by his very design for you. Satan is a far less cruel master. However, if no such monster exists in reality and we are the beautiful emergent results of natural computational systems, nature and the world become beautiful again. No longer is it a frail imperfect creation but instead a beautiful floral tapestry.
- rustcleaner 2y agoComputation is Life!™
- JackFr 2y ago> we are the beautiful emergent results of natural computational What is beauty?
- card_zero 2y agoTentative theory of beauty: it's communication across a gap. This certainly applies to flowers, and possibly also to humans, although we may be jaded by over-intimacy and arbitrary standards in assessing that objectively.
- JackFr 2y agoWhat’s something you believe in without proof?
- card_zero 2y agoStatistical significance, causal determinism, life goals, civil society. Why?
- mattgreenrocks 2y agoThat’s quite a tangent there, comes off a bit as axe-grinding. Religion or not, you will have to face the void and make peace with it eventually. It’s a primal human fear.
- ithkuil 2y ago> it's a primal human fear Yes. Just like monsters