(December 8, 2008 at 5:41 am)CoxRox Wrote: Darwinian, your post was very interesting indeed:
''I know many physicists that believe that consciousness is distinct from the brain and that once a persons body dies the 'person' somehow carries on existing.
They are all atheist in that they don't believe in a god but the more they look into the strange world of quantum mechanics the more they see these counter intuitive possibilities.''
Do they base this on any research? And if this is possible, maybe there is this 'other mind' out there. You know who I mean........
Allan, I am an optimist and I'll always hope there is more than this too. I'm greedy....
Hi CoxRox
The problem of Physicists who believe in a sort of life "existing" after death should first of all define the notion of existing.
If they mean that a dead person continues to live in the memory of other persons than they are sort of "right".
Only that the memory is a manifestation of the living person without any proved physical influence from the side of the dead.
Religious people who believe in life after death believe in the immortal soul which has nothing to do with atheism.
Now the problem of "counter intuitive possibilities " in the world of quantum mechanics is not new and began with the uncertainity principle postulated by Bohr /Heisenberg and never recognized as such by Einstein.
Stephen Hawking has used it in his physics of black holes,and has even hinted that uncertainity could be a universal principle.
I don't know where the indeterminism which is the base of the uncertainity principle stucks.
If someone of this forum knows more about indeterminism please come foreward and enlighten us.
