A Scientific Basis for Spirit

[The Grand Nudger]

Gee whiz Rhytmn, why should you feel that you need to 'give me' anything?

I mean think about it. I post my thoughts on a forum as "Food for Thought" for anyone who might be interested.

Yet, here you are acting like if you give my thoughts any merit at all you'd be somehow supporting me personally.

It's truly unfortunate that Internet forums tend to be like this. Everyone is at 'war' trying to prove their views are right and everyone else's views are wrong.

It's just food for thought, that's all.

Is it always going to be like this? You make a thread called "Scientific Basis for Spirit" and then when your proposal is criticized and someone asks you to demonstrate things which you are consistently taking as a given (or even insisting are givens) you complain that they're being a big old meanie? Always at war, always to prove their POV right. No, I'm asking you to provide what you made mention of in the title.

Yes. I do believe I can ignore my own thoughts if I chose to.

You don't have to leverage belief here, that's a falsifiable proposition. It can be tested, with proper protocol, and you can get results. (I'd be willing to bet that there's some researcher somewhere that would be thrilled to have you volunteer to be a subject in exactly this sort of experiment)

The very presence that I can't simply make go away by pure will.

There might just be a reason that we don't have conscious access to the kill switch of our own consciousness. It might not be a good idea...take a look at the decisions that people make around you.

Personally I believe in free will, but I'll probably get laughed at for believing in that too.

You're entitled to that, I'm only mentioning that science doesn't operate on beliefs. If you're going to refer to something and call it a scientific basis for this or that, it has to be scientific.