Re: The beginning of us

From: Bill Hobba (bhobba_at_rubbish.net.au)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 02:49:10 GMT

"Todd Smith" <smittod@auburn.edu> wrote in message
news:ed3092e7.0406291611.392c6cca@posting.google.com...
> I'd like to explore the origin of the self for a moment. By self, I
> mean soul, or presence, or whatever makes you conscious of being you.
>
> If you believe that whatever this "energy" is that powers your
> existence also exists in these 3 dimensions, then (since energy is
> neither created nor destroyed and we live in a universe with a finite
> amount of energy), it too must have been born at the big bang,
> although maybe not in it's present configuration, making each of us
> 10-20 billion years old. This seems more reasonable to me than asking,
> "Why am I 23 years old, and where was I 24 years ago?"

In this context it is wise to actually understand what energy is - see
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/noether.html.

>
> On the other hand, if you believe that our conscious selfs have a
> source of energy outside of our 3 dimensions, and you smoke a joint or
> do some other activity that affects the mind, you can sense a change
> in your perceptions, and so somehow the chemicals in your blood are
> having an effect on your brain, your brain processes its signals
> differently and you can experience and be aware of those effects. Then
> there must be some link between our brain in this world and our
> awarenesses in the other.
>
> So is it right to assume that either we are 15 billion years old and
> our "souls" have been floating around ever since the big bang, or that
> our brains have some method of inter-dimensional communication?

We have no evidence either view is correct.

Thanks
Bill

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