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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (7865)	9/6/2001 11:17:25 PM
From: rockerbanger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

in the first place one do not have a free choice to be born,and one do not have a choice not to die, that's the big ones, otherwise what choice does one have, if you wanted to zip off to the andromeda galaxie for the weekend, you cant, if you want to get small and romp around in the carpet with the dust mites, you cant. if you want to be present at a big bang while retaining your human form you cant, and sadest of all if you chose to figure it all out, you cant,and must die in that state.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (7865)	9/7/2001 3:54:52 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

>>I'm claiming that the very phenomenon of consciousness ARISES out of quantum effects (your authors probably touch upon this) and this necessarily introduces non-locality to brain functions (I tend to agree). This is a fundamental point, IMO.<< Given some quantitative measure of the difference in effects of two possible future events, I can define the term "farfenugen" to mean the ratio of this difference to the energy threshold currently separating the future occurrence of these events. Accepting this obscure definition, would you consider living things to be loci of high concentrations of "farfenugen"? And would conscious beings be just particularly high concentrations? Just trying to understand your viewpoint. Please correct me if I'm wrong.