Except that term isn't universally accepted due to bias.
Christian Evangelicals - not all are made equal
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As far as I was told, Christians were instructed via the Bible, etc, to live their lives according to their principals and to tell the world about Jesus. The "converting" part is up to the individual. It might seem like splitting hairs but I believe it's a significant difference myself.
SEVERAL biological processes do seem to have a quantum component to them, but given the tiny scale of cell parts, that just goes with the territory. It doesn't mean that consciousness itself is a quantum property. Heck the flash memory used in SSD's and SD cards relies on quantum effects to work(quantum tunneling specifically), having one installed on your computer doesn't turn it into a quantum computer.
Yeah, I don't really understand quantum mechanics. I guess I'm just using it metaphorically. Einstein even called it "spooky action at a distance. "
I'm just saying biological process and physical processes have failed to explain and account for consciousness. So it seems plausible that consciousness may come first. The theory does seem to suggest that the physical world exists because we are "observing it. " If we go down small enough to the atomic level, everything, including ourselves, is just invisible energy, vibrations. It's why The Flash can phase through solid matter if he vibrates his atoms and molecules fast enough.
There is a related school of thought that says there's just not enough space in our brains to hold all our memories. They can't even point to locations in the brain where specific information and memories are stored. So the suggestion is that alot of where our memories our stored is outside our brains in some sort of cloud or world-wide web.
I'm fascinated by the Hindu and Buddhist ideas of finding your Dharma, awakening your Kundalini, and using your Chakras. They are just practical principles that just seem to work for self-help, self-improvement, and enlightenment. I just see them as forms of psychology and cognitive-behavioral therapy.
For me, they don't conflict with Christianity which involves unburdening yourself, and laying all your burdens and worries on God, and relying on Jesus for forgiveness, healing, and washing away our sins. On the contrary, Christianity involves emptying yourself, clearing your mind, opening yourself up, so you can listen and understand with your heart.
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You are right that we don't fully understand consciousness, but there are a great many things we don't understand, that doesn't mean consciousness doesn't manifest as an emergent property of complex interacting systems.
If you iterate Z₂ = Z₁ + C on a complex plane and filter out the results that head to infinity, you'll get an infinitely complex shape from a VERY simple set of rules. The interactions within a single neuron are much more complex.
If you iterate Z₂ = Z₁ + C on a complex plane and filter out the results that head to infinity, you'll get an infinitely complex shape from a VERY simple set of rules. The interactions within a single neuron are much more complex.
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That's just people wildly overestimating how much brain is actually required to do things. Even fish brains can do a lot more than we used to think.
That's news to me. Whose bias?
I'm going by the Oxford Dictionary's definitions.
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In the next episode, I want to see Christians for Mohammed. Or maybe Christians for Joseph Smith.
I'll wait until we get to Christians for the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I like spaghetti.
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I'm not sure what the point was. If someone gave up on any religion due to hearing such a conversation, then they haven't really invested much time to understanding the core values of that religion.
The shallow philosophy is a direct result of the core values, though.
Christianity is full of all sorts of things that are clearly immoral, untrue, or incoherent to anyone who actually thinks about them deeply, and full of authoritarians who discourage such thinking.
The majority of Christians have not even thought about how their religion works deeply enough to even realize something as basic as the fact that, even if their religion is true, their god isn't saving anyone from anything besides himself.
Christianity is full of all sorts of things that are clearly immoral, untrue, or incoherent to anyone who actually thinks about them deeply, and full of authoritarians who discourage such thinking.
The majority of Christians have not even thought about how their religion works deeply enough to even realize something as basic as the fact that, even if their religion is true, their god isn't saving anyone from anything besides himself.
The big problem with Christianity is it takes a deity who isn't meant to be infallible and all-good - from what I understand about Judaism, the more jerkass things Yahweh does in the Torah are meant to illustrate He's as capable of ******* up as we are (since we're made in His image - we have His best and worst traits), to the point He even gets some sense talked into Him by Moses when He's being particularly petty towards the Israelites - and tries to present Him as all-loving and kind... While adding the lovely idea that He'll torture you for eternity for not loving Him enough, which has zero basis in Judaism.
Basically Christianity took a god who's meant to be flawed (like most gods in any mythology) and tried to pretend He's all benevolent, while also unintentionally making Him an even bigger asshole.
Basically Christianity took a god who's meant to be flawed (like most gods in any mythology) and tried to pretend He's all benevolent, while also unintentionally making Him an even bigger asshole.
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