How will it be possible for us rationalists to discuss reincarnation, if we understand that a person loses, beyond the five senses, the consciousness? One only vegetates and when one dies, all the information in the brain is destroyed.
What would be the human illusionism that makes us believe in spirits, souls, saints and other abstracts that are not only based on DNA and RNA genetics (formed by billions of chemical bases) in the parents, passed on to their children?
2006-10-10 05:44:45 · 1 answers · asked by britotarcisio 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I don't think rationalist means what you think it means.
There is no evidence that DNA (or RNA) has any kind of genetic coding that includes an intrinsic belief in spirits, souls, saints or other abstracts.
Those kinds of abstracts are passed down culturally, as learned memes collected and codefied by society and family, not as heritable material in our genes.
The field of mimetics may provide more answers to your query than genetics will.
2006-10-10 06:07:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋