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

To: James Calladine who wrote (12830)	6/28/2002 4:00:41 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

"Why does my heart go on beating?" OK, Solon, I am waiting for your "scientific" answer to the subject Well, as you know, life processes do not require cerebral consciousness. The ego is an in absentia witness to many of the myriad biological events which characterize the birth, growth, decay, and death of the human organism. The ego can be destroyed without destroying the organism. But why does the heart beat? If you are asking for an intentional "why", as in fulfilling an external and intentional purpose...I can offer you no opinion. If there is such a thing, it is hiding or hidden from human eyes. It would be pointless to speculate on the value of an hypothesis to which no credible evidence has ever been attached. Nevertheless, your heart does beat. It beats because by beating it serves the biological interests of the organism to sustain and to replicate its pattern. It burns gas just as your car does, though of a different kind, and it is supplied by electricity from the central nervous system, via parasympathetic and sympathetic nerves. The sinus node, in the right atrium, is the electrical switch which turns the current to the heart off and on, and causes the heart to contract and pump blood to nourish the organism. The sinus node also regulates currents of love and peace which flow into the heart muscle. The peace is responsible for the heart while at rest. So the sinus node is the immediate cause of the contraction; but these discrete activities occcur as part of a vast system of amazing evolutionary interdependence. It is of course possible that we are biological machines designed by other machines, or something else.