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any theories on what consciousness is?

There are cases of the brain ceasing and people prounounced clinically dead, only to come back with some very interesting claims. This happens by the millions. Often Doctors and nurses suggest they can almost sense a presence in the air, as though a higher power is at work.

An interesting case, is Dr. Eben Alexander MD Neurosurgeon. The guy himself had a near death experience, he contracted, bacterial meningitis an illness that shuts down the brain, it put him into a coma. Since he should have been a goner, not only did his recovery blow away Doctors around the world, but he was on the front paige of some magazine over it. ( I can't remember which one )

Dr Alexander was an athiest and did not believe in anything of the sort. Being a nerosurgen he like his colleagues are aware of the kind of activities that takes place while in a coma, yet, Dr. Alexander, like millions of other cases, is more than convinced there is consciousness after death after swearing of being in a place that is more real than what we see here.

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Of course I do. Life is FAR to complex to believe in anything else than it being created. Common Jay, do you really think it’s coincidence that we’re on the only habitable planet in our solar system? Or that we’re the prefect distance from the Sun so much that if we were any closer or further away we’d either slowly burn or slowly freeze?

Even humans, if we evolved we wouldn’t have compassion… the rules for survival of the fittest doesn’t allow for it. We break so many rules that are bound to evolution that it’s not even funny.

Sorry if I disappointed ya kid, but all my eggs are in one basket.

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SMH

Tom, you had so much potential... just do us all a favor and drink the coolaid already...

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have you ever been eatin out kitten...? i feel terribly attracted to you right now... i take back all the mean things i'd ever said. ;)

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Or near infinite. We have yet to be able to prove that it is finite. The math states that we have either located the border through mathimatics, or there isn't a border. I believe the latter though I could be wrong. It might just be that the universe is fucking massive instead of infinite. Regardless evolution becomes quite likely when you are dealing with something on this scale.

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I remember reading a book and this guy was interviewing a scientist who
was trying to explain the odds of us being here through evolution and he
said that a tornado going through a junkyard and assembling a fully
functional Boeing 747 is more probable than evolution.

I like that. And I know it to be true.

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What's to understand about it? it's space. It follows rules like anything else...

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You're failing to see the point of evolution Sevvack. We're not dealing with anything on that massive scale (a scale that no human/computer/wizard can ever comprehend) we’re dealing with our planet and it’s alleged life of 4.5 billion y/o age. There isn’t enough time for evolution to occur on our planet in that window. There’s approximately 4 stages for evolution to occur and each stage is more and more mathematically astronomical and if you stack those probabilities the probability for life to occur on this planet in 4.5 billion years is not probable. As I said before if we had an infinite amount of time…then yes. But we didn’t.

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We are dealing with the scale of the universe though. The bigger the universe the more likely that all those stages for evolution occured somewhere. Here happens to be that location. Also we don't actually know the mathimatical odds of evolution occuring as we only know of one place that it has happened. Clearly the odds are not zero but we don't know what they are. This is the last I'm going to say on this, I've had fruitless arguments with creationists before. I respect you and your views even though I feel you're wrong.

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Leave it to you to bring falsehoods and foolishness to a thread that questions "what is consciousness"

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