Timeline for How can I scientifically explain the afterlife
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| Jul 17, 2016 at 5:00 | comment | added | a4android | @Hypnosifl Quite agree. My answer posited complex material structures casting information 'shadows' into higher dimensions. Any living organism is a complex material structure. These 'souls' are implicitly a by-product of evolution. Nothing special about humans having souls. This should pass the "Hard-SF' premise plausibility test. | |
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| Jul 14, 2016 at 19:03 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | @Renan - Sure, but the OP is asking for help in coming up with a version of the afterlife that seems to have some reasonable degree of scientific plausibility--it seems to me that most well-informed readers wouldn't consider this very plausible as a "hard SF" premise without addressing these kinds of issues (positing complex adaptive structures that are neither the product of Darwian evolution nor constructed by beings who themselves evolved is usually a no-no in hard SF), so if you have any ideas or suggestions that could be helpful to the OP if he/she is inclined to use this idea. | |
| Jul 14, 2016 at 17:44 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | @Hypnosifl my answer is an explanation of how a "technical" definition of "soul" might work for a fiction world being built. Whether it evolves, whether inanimate objects have it or not, whether animals, or even all living things have it or not, and whether the human one is more complex or not, are details to be elaborated by the author of the book/videogame/RPG where that world exists. All these possibilities may be true or false in any given world, and the underlying premise would still be valid in it. | |
| Jul 14, 2016 at 17:09 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | "Our minds exist in more than three dimensions" -- How would this make sense in evolutionary terms, if at all? Do all organisms have a component that exists in more than three dimensions, and the human version has just evolved to be more complex? Do inanimate objects have it? | |
| Jul 14, 2016 at 11:15 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | @Jules I have that book, and I love it :) | |
| Jul 14, 2016 at 9:52 | comment | added | Jules | "He also proposes an hypothesis - and this must be emphasized, it is not a theory, it will only ever make it into a theory it this is scientifically proved - that consciousness does not exist within the brain, it only interfaces with the brain, which is how an OBE may be possible" -- see also Quantum Consciousness. A good introductory text on the idea is Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind. Personally I find Penrose's argument bull**** but he does go into quite some depth and in a reasonably accessible style. | |
| Jul 13, 2016 at 23:10 | history | answered | The Square-Cube Law | CC BY-SA 3.0 |