I've asked this one couple other times, but I'm trying to get a diverse amount of answers so please bear with me if you've seen it before.
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?
2007-01-27 09:25:26 · 16 answers · asked by Atlas 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-01-27 09:33:00 · update #1
I would think at one point we were, but after they created this imagination they became a part of their creation.
2007-01-27 09:44:17 · update #2
Hmm, that's a pretty interesting idea, I've thought about that before in the past. Are you trying to say that we may all be imaginations of some greater being? Kind of like a holograms inside of giant holodeck?
2007-01-27 09:38:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No....because as soon as someone walks up to the guy sitting their meditating and pops a few bullets into their head it will all disappear.
Also their is no limit to the amount of something in something else at any given point. you could never map out Every part of a single object or animal...because if you mapped out the cells you would still have infinitely more things to map out inside that single cell.
2007-01-27 17:30:26 · answer #2 · answered by Poo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make it a human and you're just running the "Are we living in a computer simulation?" scenario from the outside, rather than the more common inside perspective.
This also relates to Bishop Berkeley's exposition that (oversimplifying) God is required to be the universal observer of existence, to maintain its continuity.
Unless the God/meditator/programmer heavy-handedly interferes, with miracles or glitches, the "creature" will have no reason not to take its reality at face value.
But then the God/meditator/programmer at all prone to introspection would have to worry about the nature of its own "reality".
(With a nod in the direction of P K Dick)
2007-01-27 17:46:12 · answer #3 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question. Since the "deer" has no independent existence outside the mind of its own creator, I would have to say, "No."
For example, should something happen to the thinker that destroyed his/her cognitive abilities, the deer would also cease to exist.
2007-01-27 17:34:39 · answer #4 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meditating is an emptying of the mind. There is no room for mapping out anything because your mind is empty.
2007-01-27 17:34:15 · answer #5 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Thats not life. Thats a life concept within a fruitful imagination.
2007-01-27 17:37:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is the ugliest part of your body?
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Yes, it would be life.
Are you describing Yahoveh?
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2007-01-27 17:33:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, very interesting, I have never heard such a thing but I don't dismiss the possibility
2007-01-27 17:31:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Until it tries to reproduce. Then it just becomes a bit pervy.
No, it has no independent action or self regulation.
2007-01-27 17:30:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, it wouldn't be a life, it would be a series of reactions between neurons in the brain - granted, a really f*cking good one, but a reaction all the same
2007-01-27 17:30:04 · answer #10 · answered by Shellular Kellular 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋