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purplemer
reply to post by Soylent Green Is People
Or we really don't have a "separate thing" called a consciousness at all, and consciousness in humans is just the perceived result of chemicals in the brain.
Perhaps when we die, those chemicals stop doing their thing, and so goes our brain and our perceived consciousness.
If that was the case would we have a science like quantum physics in which the very act of observation can change the outcome of an experiment.
Therefore every universe would qualify as being "fine tuned" which defeats the purpose of the usage."
Soylent Green Is People
purplemer
reply to post by Soylent Green Is People
A greater question would be does consciousness really exist (and I mean consciousness as a separate defined "thing")?
Really one of the few things I really know exists, is consciousness. It is something I directly experience..
Do you think it is something that is separate from our brain's chemical functions, and is it something that can be separated from (i.e., exist outside of) our brain's chemical functions?
Maybe it is, and it would be nice if it was, but I have no way of knowing if it is -- and I'm not sure how YOU know that it is.
AfterInfinity
reply to post by EsotericGod
Which is true. Information doesn't die, because information is pure energy. I mean, I guess you could say information does die, because if you scatter the values so that they are incorporated into disparate informative entities, that would mean the end of that particular informative entity's informative identity - if that makes any sense. The end of an identity is death, in a sense. So the change in a sum is the change of identity. In other words, death. So if death is just change...
Oh, philosophy, you complex mistress, you!
InverseLookingGlass
reply to post by purplemer
Fringe science. My favorite.
How do non-human life forms fit in with this? Maybe I should read the book but maybe someone has the crib notes?
I've always wondered how humans are so arrogant to believe "heaven" is only for them.
You will your universe.
Hillbilly123069
reply to post by purplemer
This is to address the OP's original post. YOur head line is a contradiction. Theory is proof of nothing more than an idea someone had. Science itself is not factual, but more observable reaction. And science makes new discoveries daily that disprove old 'concepts.'