2014 article in online science journal: "Atheists Might Not Exist"
July 4, 2016 at 11:50 am
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2016 at 11:53 am by Whateverist.)
So I am new to the source, "Science 2.0", but this is what they say is their mission. "Create a place where world-class scientists write articles and discuss issues without being filtered by size or editorial limitations, where there are no political or cultural agendas, and the audience can read great science directly from the sources and maybe learn some new things." I'd be grateful if those more in the know about science would give me their take on its legitimacy.
I'd be surprised if this article hasn't been posted about here before but I'm just now getting around to it so please bear with me. Those of you who've heard me prattle on about what I think 'God/gods' really amount to (without falling asleep) will recognize why I would find it interesting. I tend to think the inherent processes of the brain which give us conscious and unconscious states might very well be capable of giving us an internal relationship with a kindly and wise 'other'. After all we are only the conscious element of a creative process we did not initiate and do not control. Who is to say how consciousness may manifest or how our desires may feedback on the form in which consciousness is given?
Interestingly this article comes from someone academically linked to literature, not science.
http://www.science20.com/writer_on_the_e...oke-139982
I'd be surprised if this article hasn't been posted about here before but I'm just now getting around to it so please bear with me. Those of you who've heard me prattle on about what I think 'God/gods' really amount to (without falling asleep) will recognize why I would find it interesting. I tend to think the inherent processes of the brain which give us conscious and unconscious states might very well be capable of giving us an internal relationship with a kindly and wise 'other'. After all we are only the conscious element of a creative process we did not initiate and do not control. Who is to say how consciousness may manifest or how our desires may feedback on the form in which consciousness is given?
Interestingly this article comes from someone academically linked to literature, not science.
Quote:NARRATIVE PRESENCE
These theories find confirmation from a very different academic discipline—the literature department. The present writer, based at the Creativity Lab at Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s School of Design, has been looking at the manifestation of cosmic justice in fictional narratives—books, movies and games. It is clear that in almost all fictional worlds, God exists, whether the stories are written by people of a religious, atheist or indeterminate beliefs.
It’s not that a deity appears directly in tales. It is that the fundamental basis of stories appears to be the link between the moral decisions made by the protagonists and the same characters’ ultimate destiny. The payback is always appropriate to the choices made. An unnamed, unidentified mechanism ensures that this is so, and is a fundamental element of stories—perhaps the fundamental element of narratives.
http://www.science20.com/writer_on_the_e...oke-139982
