...that level given the fact our brain cells have micro-tubules that connect to that level from the macroscopic world...and at the "Planck" level, time virtually stands still...
Is this not a scientific explanation for the concept of an "afterlife?" Follow my reasoning here...if time stands still at the "Planck" scale...then "consciousness" could exist forever in a "timeless" quantum level, and that timeless level is connected to our brain cells in a "micro-to-macro" ascending way...Is not this a logical implication or "ramification" of the information?
(sorry folks...I'm a closet scientist at heart...putting the "funny" on the backburner for this one...)
2007-09-05 23:10:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
A truly fascinating idea you've outlined.
The concept of an 'afterlife' is at the root of all religious or spiritual feeling, and I've always felt 'God' really a term for our dialogues about fear of death, function of life, role in nature, eternity, etc. (except, of course, those for whom 'dialogues' become 'monologues').
The three monotheistic world religions tend to attribute consciousness, intelligence, foresight and coherence to concept of an omniscient life force, and consequently they created a BIG God.
Following your logic, however, gives us a God that is not just tiny but microscopic at sub-atomic level: God simply as Energy - and we know energy never dies but only changes form.
In other words, God does not have consciousness, but just 'is'. This completely negates the concept of an interventionist, concerned God prepared to tweak the workings of the universe to satisfy the pleadings from unworthy sinners - which is fine by me.
No guiding hand, just a perpetual, dynamic spirit that connects everything - creating, destroying, mutating.
I've read theories elsewhere that God manifests as Time:
relentless, the dynamic to absolutely everything. Your idea would seem to compliment that too: Within us is something connected beyond Time; perhaps that stillness is some essence of 'God' or life.
Anyway, thanks for a very stimulating thought. Doubtless there are many, many more ramifications but that's what came to my unscientific mind on reading your question.
You seem to me to be on to something - keep going!
P.S. Read a terrific novel which ruminates on a lot of this time/god/afterlife stuff in a pretty entertaining and dramatic way. It's called 'Dead Letter House' by Drew Campbell. You might want to check it out.
2007-09-06 00:57:13 · answer #1 · answered by Tyler's Mate 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see where you're going with this, but I'm not sure it's correct. There was no "something" that the universe sprang from, nor was there (as you correctly claim) a nothingness from whence the universe arose. Rather, the universe has existed for all time, as time is a fundamental dimension of the universe and does not (as far as we can tell) exist independently of it. So in a sense, the universe has just always... been. Sure, it was very very very dense some 15-or-so billion years ago, but there wasn't anything "before" the universe, nor anything "outside" it from whence it sprang (again, as far as humanity can possibly detect). The universe simply was at the beginning of time, and expanded. What triggered this expansion (if anything) might end up being impossible to solve, as it will have occurred at time 0, but also might end up being unimportant in the grand scheme of things.
2016-05-22 01:01:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know, time does virtually stand still at every moment. We are only seeing and experiencing what our mind remembers from before. What our minds have been programmed to see. Where is the reality in that? As for an afterlife, I don't know. Wouldn't we simply cease to exist at some time because beyond the familiar, the unfamiliar can not be registered. I don't know. This is a good question by a closet scientist.
2007-09-05 23:22:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love it! I love the Planck scale and all that talk of quantum physics and micro to macro and time... it all sounds so logically true!
Time can speed up this I know... but it can also absolutely stand still. So it's an elastic thing, it seems to me, like much of pure science seems to me to be... on orbits, or slightly discharging electricity like a quark does, everything on the move so much it stands still, or rockets about. One can almost choose which type of time one wants, and definitely I have to say I believe in eternity, so---
That's my uneducated take on it. Thanks for the info... fun question; a star.
2007-09-05 23:21:43 · answer #4 · answered by LK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great question. And since I'm more familiar with words than with science, I'll answer with a well known poem by Emerson. This seems to says it all, for life and death, accident and design, are deemed to be one. It's titled BRAHMA.
If the red slayer thinks he slays,
Or if the slain thinks he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.
Far or forget to me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanished gods to me appear;
And one to me are shame and fame.
They reckon ill who leave me out
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt;
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
The strong gods pine for my abode,
And pine in vain the sacred Seven;
But thou, meek lover of the good!
Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.
2007-09-06 04:52:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are living our after life, our before life, and out future life whenever we choose. I believe that there is no time, I am no science whiz persay. but the human brains cells are each like little planets and galaxy and each brain is the universe.. I guess until we get into our future lives our out of the life who choose or got trapped into living now we can ascend to a more heavenly universe. Don't believe anything but what you feel!!!
2007-09-05 23:19:21 · answer #6 · answered by giuseppina d 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
2007-09-05 23:32:25 · answer #7 · answered by tyler durden 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
*staring at your crotch while you babble on*
did you say something?
2007-09-05 23:13:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋