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Originally Posted by KRL
You're being way too closed mind and scientific.
People, including leading scholars of the day, used to believe the world was flat, that it was impossible to fly, that the earth was the center of the Universe, that it was impossible to send a person's voice to the other side of the world on a copper wire, that electricty was impossible to harness, that landing a human on the moon was fantasy, that it was impossible to build a computer small enough to fit in your hand, etc., etc.
How can you look into another's eyes and not sense their soul?
Are you saying your consciousness and mind is nothing more than a bunch of chemical reactions inside this blob?
No fricking way. |
Being scientific is in no way being closed minded. In fact, it's exactly the opposite way around.
Science has always been the way to drive humanity forward, whereas those who simply 'believe' things because they feel like it have always been the ones to hold humanity back. See religious people for proof of that.
Whereas in ancient times people believed that the Earth was flat, there was reason to believe that it may in fact be spherical. And it was indeed found to be spherical. We no longer live in times of scientific ignorance but there is still no reason to think that there may be a soul.
Notice how you did not provide any reason whatsoever to suggest that there may be a human soul. Simply
wanting to believe that there is a soul is no reason to actually believe that there is one, and belief never ever interferes with actual reality. For example, if you were to not believe in gravity, it would not make gravity magically unexist.
If you want to believe that there is a soul if it helps you get through the day then no-one is going to have a problem with that. But in terms of real reality, opinion is neither here nor there. Things exist or don't exist outside of the realms of belief or disbelief. The way that I get through the day is to gain knowledge and accept the real and discard the unreal. Our boats are all floated in lots of different ways. This is also the reason why I reject religion; regardless of any desire I might have to think that there is a 'higher consciousness', since there isn't one I refuse to believe that there is one.
The human brain is nothing more than matter in which electrochemical processes occur. It's not exactly a romantic reality but it
is reality so that's what I accept.