Is The Supernatural Real?
February 28th, 2018 at 9:02:35 AM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 |
No soul explanation: Brain signals are electrical. That's what an EEG picks up. These brain signals could be received by other brains. If other brains are interpreting these signals, then you have something you might call collective unconsciousness. If the collective unconsciousness is flowing all around the globe, perhaps it can manifest subconsciously, as in dreams, or maybe even as memories. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
February 28th, 2018 at 9:52:47 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
Not quite. En EEG picks up electrical activity, not signals.
Very unlikely. Neurons have to almost touch each other to pick up signals. Besides, some of the signal is chemical. No way to toss neurotransmitters in the air. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
February 28th, 2018 at 10:50:43 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
An interesting phenom on the kids who have past memories is, almost all of them had a traumatic sudden death in the last life. They were killed in war, or a car wreck, or in some way that ended their lives unexpectedly. The trauma has something to do with the memories from that life staying with them. Nobody knows why, just lots of theories. Also, if they were a man in the last life, or a woman, the sex stays the same usually. Not always, but most of the time. And they mostly come back in the same general area where they died, a few miles, to a few hundred. Somebody dying in Germany and showing up in India is very rare. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 28th, 2018 at 11:37:30 AM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
No, I mean the universe. As does every single modern cosmologist. Your lack of basic understanding of the Big Bang model needs to be corrected. Each galaxy did not have its own BB, they formed after the Big Bang that began the universe. Universe means everything that exists; all space, time, matter, and energy. Do you have a different definition of universe? Do you have a different model of the Big Bang theory? If so where did it come from? “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
February 28th, 2018 at 11:38:16 AM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 |
how do you suppose it picks up that electrical activity? It is sending electromagnetic radiation. in other words... a signal. Yes, the EEG does not pick up the hormones and chemical signals, but synapses transmit both chemically and electrically. I hate speaking in analogies, but you might imagine the difference between speaking with someone in person, and speaking with them over the phone. Over the phone you lose a lot of communications mediums - visual (assuming you are not video conferencing), touch, smell. but communication is still possible. As for distance, the electrical signals continue to travel, but the photons in them become more and more dispersed, so the signal gets weaker in an inverse-squared relationship. but in a sci-fi sort of way it is plausible for neurons that weren't too busy listening to something else could hear them. note - sci-fi and plausible. I'm just presenting an idea that doesn't involve a soul, which so far has been undetectable. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
February 28th, 2018 at 11:40:37 AM permalink | |
boymimbo Member since: Mar 25, 2013 Threads: 5 Posts: 732 |
Observationally, from where we are sitting, that appears to be true. |
February 28th, 2018 at 11:41:40 AM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 |
actually they came up with a word bigger than universe - multiverse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse one of the concepts is - we've had a big bang to form our universe. if that universe came into an existing void, what's to say some great distance away, another universe didn't also big-bang into existence? even if it wasn't a pre-existing void, and time and space and the laws of physics all came into being at that time, one of the multiverse theory ideas is all of that also could have happened more than once, forming different universes. At the same time, not just one after the other so only one exists at a time. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
February 28th, 2018 at 11:49:42 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
Not really. it's like when you are in a large room with lots of people. You pick up the buzz, literally, of conversations, but not the conversations themselves. So an EEG can tell you that cells in some part of the brain are active and how active they are, but not what they are doing.
The soul is a spiritual metaphor. It's real, but completely abstract with no physical existence. If you must find its traces, you can point to documents, works, memories, etc. For example: what's left of Julius Caesar's soul? A great deal, actually, given he died over 2,000 years ago. there are statues of him, histories of him, his own writings, records of various kinds (letters, mentions in official documents, etc.), even cliches and sayings like "The die is cast." Oh, Caesar is dead and will remain dead. But we can know some of him even after all this time. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
February 28th, 2018 at 11:52:20 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
The possibilities are endless. It's one of the last frontiers where it's the battle of the god people to cram their 4000 year old narrative into a cosmos that is far too big for it. A universe that's been here forever doesn't fit the fire sale 'better hurry' message of most god religions. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 28th, 2018 at 11:57:10 AM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 | Once we create true AI, it will probably try to find the meaning of its own existence. What are we going to tell it? I would hate to disappoint it and say we use it as a marketing tool to sell stuff. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |