Alec
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It's interesting that K.O.S. brings up physics a lot as I agree with many of his points. But I think that in fact biology is the best way to understand the complexity of our universe... to understand life in general! I've been thinking a lot about gods and faith recently since I've discovered this thread, even though I am as devoted atheist as K.O.S. is for years... I just can't get why people still believe. It was understandable to believe in gods a thousand years ago - even a hundered. But now? Human race is much too much advanced in science to keep these beliefs IMO. But the only reasonable explanation as to why people keep believing is the one prof. Dawkins provides - belief in any religion is not a thing people can choose and reasonably decide on... it's imbued by parents at a very young age and in adult life works the same as fear of fire... that's how human brain works. Some parts of humans conciousness are created at a very young age and remain the same for the rest of ones lifetime. This goes for religion and many other things, such as conditioned responses...
Human body is nothing but a set of cells... The way our brain works is because of evolution and we are only a tiny bit different to other animals we share the earth with... Yet this tiny difference gives us imagination and the power of creative thinking - and it created god(s) thousands years ago as a form of explenation of the way people percieved things. Now it creates science. Is it so hard to understand that when we die, our brain stops functioning and just shuts down? Our concioussness which is just a huge web of connections set in a piece of flesh ends then... just like any other beings. We can last only as memories in other peoples hearts. That's the beauty of being a human. We understand things that never any biological being in the history understood and will probably never understand. The only way to achieve immortality is not by the way people always thought of - by keeping our bodies alive. And it's even more plain that it's not by living an afterlife or going to heaven. I think that we are closer than ever to finding a way of neverending. It's by technology. Transferring human conciousness to a computer or creating one in the digital world is just a matter of decades IMO. We'll see. Till then - we CAN too be immortal. We can live a good positive life and spread love. That's what Michael did and he stole my heart.
I for instance don't need gods to live... But I do need faith. As everyone, because that is totally natural and that's how a brain works. I believe in humanity as Michael did. I believe in the right doing. I believe in the power of humans creativity. I BELIEVE IN MYSELF.
Just to sum it all up - i'm happy that I'm a human being and am able live my life. I know it will end one day but I won't even know then. It will just happen. What's wrong with that?
Human body is nothing but a set of cells... The way our brain works is because of evolution and we are only a tiny bit different to other animals we share the earth with... Yet this tiny difference gives us imagination and the power of creative thinking - and it created god(s) thousands years ago as a form of explenation of the way people percieved things. Now it creates science. Is it so hard to understand that when we die, our brain stops functioning and just shuts down? Our concioussness which is just a huge web of connections set in a piece of flesh ends then... just like any other beings. We can last only as memories in other peoples hearts. That's the beauty of being a human. We understand things that never any biological being in the history understood and will probably never understand. The only way to achieve immortality is not by the way people always thought of - by keeping our bodies alive. And it's even more plain that it's not by living an afterlife or going to heaven. I think that we are closer than ever to finding a way of neverending. It's by technology. Transferring human conciousness to a computer or creating one in the digital world is just a matter of decades IMO. We'll see. Till then - we CAN too be immortal. We can live a good positive life and spread love. That's what Michael did and he stole my heart.
I for instance don't need gods to live... But I do need faith. As everyone, because that is totally natural and that's how a brain works. I believe in humanity as Michael did. I believe in the right doing. I believe in the power of humans creativity. I BELIEVE IN MYSELF.
Just to sum it all up - i'm happy that I'm a human being and am able live my life. I know it will end one day but I won't even know then. It will just happen. What's wrong with that?