RE: A Scientific Basis for Spirit
February 12, 2012 at 3:15 pm
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2012 at 3:16 pm by Cyberman.)
How about my notion of the thing we call spirit/mind/soul/whatever is the brain experiencing what it feels like to be a brain from the inside? Now we have a putative model which explains the concept of spirit with fewer assumed entities than yours. It also has the advantage of being scientifically investigable, since we can detect and measure the brain's electrical activity and can associate the measurements with individual brain states - fear, anger, love, sexual arousal etc. You've already admitted that the spirit hypothesis, at least as you presented it, may be - must be - beyond the reach of scientific investigation since it fails the experiment that you yourself proposed.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
