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1. n /∞ = 0 and ∞ / n = ∞
The argument that you exist now but cease to exist in the future requires that at some point infinitely in the future you are perceived as not having existed infinitely into the past. If you have not existed into the past from some future perspective and do not exist infinitely into the future from your current perspective then you never have and never will exist for all infinity. Obviously this is a logical paradox that can only be resolved by saying consciousness is external and infinite in nature.
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Originally posted by jtap66
I was with you, until you made the leap that somehow infinite conciousness translated into a sentient god, and managed to make this an atheists vs. theists thing.
How do you make the jump from endless conciousness to a confirmed existence of a creator?
Originally posted by mnemeth1
Originally posted by jtap66
I was with you, until you made the leap that somehow infinite conciousness translated into a sentient god, and managed to make this an atheists vs. theists thing.
How do you make the jump from endless conciousness to a confirmed existence of a creator?
If consciousness is infinite and eternal, then there is an afterlife. This non-local consciousness implies a creator to bring consciousness into existence in the first place in its non-local location.
I would also suggest that a Big Bang type event also implies the existence of a creator to bring that into existence as well, but physicists like to dispute this point by using QM interpretations. Obviously by refuting QM as a mechanism, I am demonstrating the need for a creator.
Originally posted by Slavich
Bro no one here is going to understand anything in your OP but a select few of us. You can't use logos to explain all this. If you could then the world wouldn't be the # hole that it is in today. Got to use some mythos as well. (maybe tell a story how all this would work?). I've had the above explained to me but it was explained in a lot more detail. But it is the truth none the less. Weather people can understand it or not is a whole different thing.
Originally posted by mnemeth1
Originally posted by Slavich
Bro no one here is going to understand anything in your OP but a select few of us. You can't use logos to explain all this. If you could then the world wouldn't be the # hole that it is in today. Got to use some mythos as well. (maybe tell a story how all this would work?). I've had the above explained to me but it was explained in a lot more detail. But it is the truth none the less. Weather people can understand it or not is a whole different thing.
If you don't understand, then you simply need to read and learn.
There are people here who fully understand what I am saying and I'm eagerly awaiting their responses.
edit on 19-1-2012 by mnemeth1 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Slavich
I just said I understood and it was explained to me in much more detail. O.o? Reading comprehension man.
Originally posted by jtap66
reply to post by mnemeth1
How can there be an "afterlife" is conciousness is eternal? "After" what?
Again, say there's an afterlife. Say there's something beyond this realm. That still doesn't in any way point to a sentient creator.
Originally posted by jtap66
reply to post by mnemeth1
How can there be an "afterlife" is conciousness is eternal? "After" what?
Again, say there's an afterlife. Say there's something beyond this realm. That still doesn't in any way point to a sentient creator.
Originally posted by jtap66
reply to post by mnemeth1
It's a simplistic argument, but the big bang wouldn't need a creator. If a creator exists, who created the creator? If the creator requires no creator, then neither does the big bang. Neither does consiouness. The concept of a beginning and an end is as much a human creation as time itself.
Conciousness is eternal, in my humble opinion. This incarnation of it may end, but it will evolve and move on. No creator required.
Originally posted by jtap66
Put another way, you're arguing that man-made hypotheses somehow negate or rule out other theories. I'm of the opinion that any crrently "correct" scientific theory should end with the caveat "as far as we know".
All this is endless and timeless and seamless.
Originally posted by mnemeth1
Originally posted by jtap66
Put another way, you're arguing that man-made hypotheses somehow negate or rule out other theories. I'm of the opinion that any crrently "correct" scientific theory should end with the caveat "as far as we know".
All this is endless and timeless and seamless.
A probabilistic theory is required to even get close to explaining free will. Because QM runs into logical contradictions, we can say that probabilistic theories are incapable of explaining free will. This leaves one of two choices - non-local consciousness or determinism.
Determinism just sounds ****ing retarded on the face of it.
If I don't have free will, then why the hell did this entire universe create itself and decide to take me along for the ride? Obviously I don't have a choice in asking that question if determinism is true. I have no choice in writing this article, I was destined to do it. I have no choice period. Nothing matters. Total nihilism.
5. The number of synapses in the brain is not large enough to hold all the memories of the brain.
This might sound like a lot, but consider that only amounts to about 3.5 years worth of HD video.
Some people (granted very few, but only one case is sufficient to prove my point) have the clear ability to recall nearly every day of their adult life in practically perfect detail
Originally posted by Maslo
reply to post by mnemeth1
5. The number of synapses in the brain is not large enough to hold all the memories of the brain.
I call BS on this one.
This might sound like a lot, but consider that only amounts to about 3.5 years worth of HD video.
Some people (granted very few, but only one case is sufficient to prove my point) have the clear ability to recall nearly every day of their adult life in practically perfect detail
Visual memory is a LOT more compressed than a HD video. What we remember is just shapes, colors, specific information and vague impressions. I am sure even the best hyperthymetics in the world cannot compare to a HD video in the density of recorded information.
2. If you believe in the theory of Einsteinian Quantum Mechanics, then you believe that conscious observation must be present to collapse a wave function.