I asked this a couple times before and this'll be the last time. I just want a good range of answers.
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?
2007-01-29 00:19:24 · 9 answers · asked by Atlas 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yep it would.
Are you implying were just thought patterns in Gods mind?
2007-01-29 00:25:50 · answer #1 · answered by Antares 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
For the duration that this immortal considered the mental construct, yes, it would be a certain form of life, albeit a rather controlled and sterile life. The only problem is when this immortal moved on to another mental construct the original creation would slowly degrade within his memory from lack of use/consideration(unless he has some kind of flawless immortal memory or some bs). And when it comes down to it this still would not be a form of life in the strictest sense simply because there was an outside thought controlling it's actions and decisions. It would be a perfectly formed mental puppet.
2007-01-29 00:38:01 · answer #2 · answered by renfrost6 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would take away the joy of the things we see.
Why would you want to home in on an individual cell, and its composition?
Isn't a flower prettier if you take in the whole thing at one time?
Is a rose prettier if you can see its entire composition?
I don't think so.
Lets look at it in another way, Is a complete rose prettier than a microscopic view of a tiny portion of the rose?
I could take that one step further, sometimes things that you have never seen, but can picture in your mind, are prettier than they are when you actually get to see them, including people.
grace2u
2007-01-29 00:36:21 · answer #3 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life, by the strictest of definitions, must have a begining and and end. Otherwise it is just an animation, like a motion picture holigram, even if you could make it have mass it would still not be life.
It must be manifested.
Mirages don't quench your thirst.
2007-01-29 01:59:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
May I direct your attention to "Why God Won't Go Away," and "Why We Believe What We Believe" by Andrew Newberg?
He and his associates have explored the role of neurobiology in belief and his books are very enlightening as to the sense of what is "real" to us.
2007-01-29 01:35:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No You reported "They think of a deer", so the existence could be imaginary. We won't elect to effect the deer's strikes whether it remains a made from our mind's eye and for this reason un-genuine. in case you need to create existence and launch it to do because it pleases then it can be a existence. If that existence knew who created it and had to thrill that writer, it ought to instruct a appreciate for the writer.
2016-11-28 02:37:34 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The brain is very complex, no one has fully uncoered it's secrets, maybe we never will, but untill then, we'll only have assuptions like this one, keep it up!
2007-01-29 00:34:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have the mind of Christ . I have the spirit of Christ both living in me.
2007-01-29 00:26:32 · answer #8 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Oh .... dear ....Atlas.... I can hold such beautiy !! & I am sorry that u can not.
........./ ??? MAYBE . i am takin' your question wrong
2007-01-29 00:29:22 · answer #9 · answered by rrainn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋