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Termyn8or -> RE: to build a human brain..... and kill the soul? (7/23/2009 9:13:30 PM)
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FR
I had to hit snopes for this, but they confirm, or at least refuse to deny that the soul weighs 21 grams. A quick look about the net reveals that this subject has not been discussed to death, there are varying opinions.
I could rebut the 21 gram theory in two ways. One would be that there are gaseous emissions from the human body at the moment of death. Or possibly embodied in the works of Einstein we might find it. Einstein concluded that light rays can be influenced by gravity. If anything is energy, light is. However there are these things called photons said to reside in rays of light. [quick question, does gravity affect a magnetic field ?].
So even accepted science is ambiguous at times. If a light ray is photons, and something different than other wavelengths of the EM spectrum, why does it fit so well. ? Why do the innovations based on these principles work at all ?
I believe that no matter how many questions they answer, they generate at least two more. This is the way the universe is, it is not their fault. If light exists in some gray area in the space/time continuum, it is well possible that we are simply lacking in a few pieces of information. If you can, break down the wall in your mind about the definitions of matter and energy. I do disagree with Einstein's modified theory, but I did not toss the baby out with the bathwater.
It comes clear, over the period of years, that things will be explained in time. The soul may have no mass, maybe all they discodered is that the energy used in our bodies for impulses to the muscles and so forth is energy in the same sense and therefore has mass. I can't explain it, but I seem to come closer and closer to thinking of mass and energy as the same thing, only in a different form. Perhaps the form is not quite completely distinct, that not only is there some mass in energy, but the reverse would also apply, that there is some energy in mass.
The soul is a hard thing to discuss, but here goes. If you were kidnapped by aliens and they made an absolutely perfect replica of you to leave behind, and nobody knew, you would still be on their planet doing who the hell knows what, and the replica would be here, living your life, and doing it EXACTLY as you would. But you would still be there.
Of course that statement renders it completely......... something. It may not be mass nor energy, but I would have to say that it exists.
As such the scientifically oriented among us can comment on something which :
The existence of same is taken, whether proven or just accepted due to the preponderance of the evidence and;
It has no mass, nor can it be considered energy.
T
PS; Knock at the door, no time to proof. Take it easy on me about any typos, will edit later if I can.
T
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