Let's say someone is immortal and spends all their time meditating. They imagine a deer and through years of meditation map out every cell, every bone, every chemical reaction that would go on inside that deer. They can remove any influence they would have on this imagination of theirs and sort of suspend it, and let everything inside it serve its purpose.
I'm just thinking about what if someone could have a fully functioning life form inside their mind unlike the superficial images of animals we have inside ours.
Would this be a life?
2007-01-26 19:53:50 · 11 answers · asked by Atlas 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It would be a non-instantiated life. It would exist potentialy, but would have no actualization. You can probably recognize the Platonism there... it would be a Platonic Form, incapable of becoming an actual hypostasis.
PS - Good luck in Boot Camp. Hope to see you posting again in a few months.
2007-01-26 19:59:00 · answer #1 · answered by NONAME 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It would not be a life, just because we have a more complete picture in our head does not make it anything more than a picture. This life inside of this mans head cannot be projected any further than inside his own head in the imaginary world he has created for it. Basically it all comes down to the fact that it is still chemicals and electrical impulses (plus whatever else goes on up there, i am not a specialist of the brain, anything i know i attribute to passing intrest) all of which are controlled by that person, it has no mind of it's own, no life of it's own.
2007-01-26 20:29:45 · answer #2 · answered by Roy B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you mean by "a life" some times an Idea or concept may take on a "life of its own" and some ideas "die " but there is no biological life as a result of your meditation
2007-01-26 20:10:47 · answer #3 · answered by rexredtag 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes when I think of how everything in the universe was created I imagine we may be living out the dream of some superior being.
2007-01-26 20:02:37 · answer #4 · answered by shrabikhababi 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'd put my money on a room full of typewriters and monkeys coming up with William Shakespear first.
2007-01-26 20:16:34 · answer #5 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A non-life-looking life, hypothetically of course
2007-01-26 19:58:05 · answer #6 · answered by FAUUFDDaa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be whatever the mediator wants it to be. It may not even exist outside the mediator's mind, but then again, nothing does.
2007-01-26 19:57:37 · answer #7 · answered by a sock 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The number 666 could do the job because when that is required all minds will be subject to the control of the AntiChrist and the Devil.
2007-01-26 20:00:48 · answer #8 · answered by Ptuan 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Hypothetical? Atlas, you are too cute.
(...and probably too smart for your own good!)
2007-01-26 20:06:42 · answer #9 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
*twing!*
soul cultivation! Sounds like conjuration to me.
2007-01-26 20:01:05 · answer #10 · answered by Invisible_Flags 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋