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 Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:36 am |
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Hi!
Within the research project of Artificial Life (AL), it is tried to
simulate life. Good examples are the papers by Terzopoulos. For
example, in his paper about fishes (http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~dt/ see
Publications - No. 26) his animals show a quite complex and realistic
behavior.
On the other hand, scientific research about reincarnation (see Ian
Stevenson: Reincarnation), about near-death experiences, and
apparitions indicates that something like a soul may survive bodily
death.
But if Artificial Life should, in future, be successful in simulating
life: Would this mean that there cannot be an entity like the soul
which survives death? --- Not necessarily, because for a simulation
you need a computer: You need basic software and - above all - a
processor. And something like a processor (which uses natural laws as
the world software) might be necessary in the real world, too. If
there were just one processor for all natural objects in the real
world this would be something like a Weltgeist (world spirit). But
maybe the world is a multi-processor system, and maybe there is a
processor for each living being. These life-specific processors (you
may call them entelechy or soul) might be able to control another
body
after the death of the previous one.
What do you think of these ideas? Can there be any experiments which
could test this?
Bye, Lothar Arendes
My homepage-address: http://freenet-homepage.de/LotharArendes |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:43 am |
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Hi!
As a motivation for the belief that we could survive bodily death I
want to quote the abstract of an article by the famous American
psychologist Ian Stevenson et al.:
Ian Stevenson & Satwant Pasricha: "A preliminary report on an unusual
case of the reincarnation type with xenoglossy". In: The Journal of
the American Society for Psychical Research, Vol. 74, July 1980: pp.
331-348.
Abstract: The authors report a case of the reincarnation type with
several unusual features. First, the subject began to have apparent
memories of a previous life when she was in her thirties, a much older
age than that of the usual subjects of cases of this type; second, the
memories occurred only during periods of marked change in the
subject's personality; and third, the new personality that emerged
spoke a language (Bengali) that the subject could not speak or
understand in her normal state. (She spoke Marathi and had some
knowledge of Hindi, Sanskrit, and English.) A careful investigation of
the subject's background and early life disclosed no opportunities for
her to have learned to speak Bengali before the case developed. A
final interpretation of this case cannot be made on the basis of
present information and knowledge. The authors, however, believe that,
as of now, the data of the case are best accounted for by supposing
that the subject has had memories of the life of a Bengali woman who
died about 1830. |
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