kmguru
Staff member
Gas, liquid, solid - air, water, plants, animals, rocks...it is all product of the big bang or whatever that forms stars and galaxies. Air is as important as water....
Banshee, I posted the blackhole stuff because the topic how and why life happened. Since we dont know a lot about life, any speculation is as good as any other on the issue of spirit...One consolation is that we are not inventing a new paradigm here. Most religions and specially Buddhism is heavy in spirits. What we do not have is a scientific basis of spirit and its properties. Life is a result of millions of years of evolution. Science is a development of only in the last few hundred years. We have a long way to go to find our what secrets lie ahead.
Did not somebody say - everything that can be invented has been invented, there is nothing new science can teach us or something like that?
If there is such a thing as a spirit, then what is it, what are the properties...it will be interesting to discuss....
My personal belief is that, if spirits do exist, it had to be in the following context.
Several years ago, I was tinkering in an AI type program for a project where the program will create the initial conditions for a sub program, the results of the sub program is matched against a matrix of objectives - if it is a close match, another program will back propagate the result set to form a new initial condition until we find the formula for the objective function. (It is a lot more complex than that - I simplified for brevity). So, my thinking is say we are sub-programs in a main program of the universe. Our life could have another component that monitors the overall objective while the sub-programs (us) are created and die while trying to reach that main goal. Each sub-program could have a monitor program assigned...
It is similar to the Buddha thinking that the spirit is purified or learns as it is born and reborn again and again until its job is done at "nirvana". I had a weird lucid dream that I was at Kemmerer (Wyoming) around 1843. Was I really born then or I tapped into an universal database....who knows...
Life id full of mysteries....and no we have not exhausted the knowledgebase...
happy dreaming....
Banshee, I posted the blackhole stuff because the topic how and why life happened. Since we dont know a lot about life, any speculation is as good as any other on the issue of spirit...One consolation is that we are not inventing a new paradigm here. Most religions and specially Buddhism is heavy in spirits. What we do not have is a scientific basis of spirit and its properties. Life is a result of millions of years of evolution. Science is a development of only in the last few hundred years. We have a long way to go to find our what secrets lie ahead.
Did not somebody say - everything that can be invented has been invented, there is nothing new science can teach us or something like that?
If there is such a thing as a spirit, then what is it, what are the properties...it will be interesting to discuss....
My personal belief is that, if spirits do exist, it had to be in the following context.
Several years ago, I was tinkering in an AI type program for a project where the program will create the initial conditions for a sub program, the results of the sub program is matched against a matrix of objectives - if it is a close match, another program will back propagate the result set to form a new initial condition until we find the formula for the objective function. (It is a lot more complex than that - I simplified for brevity). So, my thinking is say we are sub-programs in a main program of the universe. Our life could have another component that monitors the overall objective while the sub-programs (us) are created and die while trying to reach that main goal. Each sub-program could have a monitor program assigned...
It is similar to the Buddha thinking that the spirit is purified or learns as it is born and reborn again and again until its job is done at "nirvana". I had a weird lucid dream that I was at Kemmerer (Wyoming) around 1843. Was I really born then or I tapped into an universal database....who knows...
Life id full of mysteries....and no we have not exhausted the knowledgebase...
happy dreaming....