Swami said:

Because we (engineers) fully understand computers/robots at the macro level, we find no need to add in some mystery factor. It is ONLY because brain function is not understood very well that we give it some mystical quality.

This game of "ignorance = mysticism" speaks only of ourselves and tells us nothing of the world. Saying that thunder was an angry God "explained" as much saying that a soul differentiates life from non-life. It serves no real purpose. It is time to grow beyond this primitive mindset.

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We have always used our imaginations to fill in the blanks until a better, more concrete explanation came along.  I don't think anyone can explain why we are here or where we go when we die because to be able to do that, one would have to have died and come back to tell us what happened after leaving his body.  "Discorporating." 

Humans like to have explanations for things.  Nothing wrong with theorizing about things until proven right or wrong.  Once the world was thought flat.  Once it was thought that the sun revolved around the earth.  Those are primitive ideas.

There is nothing primitive about believing that there is a reason for being here, or that we have souls that go somewhere after death, because nothing has yet been proven to the contrary.

Frog said:

I don't think anyone can explain why we are here or where we go when we die because to be able to do that, one would have to have died and come back to tell us what happened after leaving his body.  "Discorporating." 

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Green Day, "One of my lies"

"Why does my life have to be so long,
And death is forever?
And does forever have a life to call its own?
Don't give me an answer 'cause you only know
As much as I know,
Unless you've been there once and
I hardly think so..."

moog said:

look, you have consciousness. that means your brain is a unit of consciousness. jesus.

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