tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468179197946374164.post8573215048502699656..comments2023-10-22T07:02:11.798-04:00Comments on brooklynometry: Anchorsamarillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06145474039245058818noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468179197946374164.post-36113038829727423772015-05-30T12:31:20.721-04:002015-05-30T12:31:20.721-04:00"Our minds emerge from our synapses, and I ho..."Our minds emerge from our synapses, and I hope our Souls emerge from our minds, and just maybe when you get enough Souls, God emerges from them." From one goo bag to another, that feels true. Often it seems like the people I meet in the day are in an unconscious way trying to bring me back to Life. amarillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06145474039245058818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468179197946374164.post-24080736380025037902015-05-25T10:56:28.265-04:002015-05-25T10:56:28.265-04:00I love your writing and your thoughts. We share m...I love your writing and your thoughts. We share many similar views although I suspect that yours are driven by a lot more IQ than mine are. <br /><br />Regarding the wars of religions, it puts me into mind when I was in high school in the mid 60s, there were Ford men and Chevy men (boys actually but you couldn't tell them that). Everything devolved down to Fords suck and Chevies rule, or vice versa, depending on which camp you were in. Objectively, I liked both, but when in Rome do as the Romans do, so I was somewhat variable to the needs of the mob about me. Anyhow religions sort of strike me like car brands. They do a lot to push the brand recognition, even to the degree of having hood ornaments...crosses of various designs, star of David, crescent moons, Buddha's, many armed Hindu Gods and Goddesses. Like a Chevy, Ford or Mercedes, they want instant recognition of the brand. Then they all have their little beliefs and rules and regulations in an attempt to have exclusivity. You can only get this feature here! I think of the many ways in which I am going to hell:<br /><br />Wasn't fully immersed when baptized<br />Wasn't baptized as an infant.<br />Wan't baptized as an adult. <br />Mixed meat and dairy. <br />Had premarital sex. <br />Used contraception.<br />Maintained false beliefs regarding bread and wine. <br />Touched my wife when she was unclean.<br />On and on it goes. I have racked up an impressive list of technical sins as well as the very real ones...unkindness, hatred, gossip. The technical sins you have to read about, the real ones you know when you do them because your conscience puts you on notice. <br /><br />If you can't please them all, please none of them. That said though, I am something of an Everythingest. An atheist told me, that humanity has a God shaped hole in their hearts. If there is no God then we will invent one to fill the hole. How can I say the hole in my heart is better, more righteous, than the hole in yours? Is any one piece of a jigsaw puzzle better than another piece? It only fits in one place in the puzzle, and without the puzzle is not complete. <br /><br />I have come to think here lately that maybe God derives from a principle known as emergence...complexity emerges out of simplicity. Take any one ant and you have a pretty stupid thing, yet the ant hill has an amazing "intelligence" about it. Using the scalpel of reductionism try to find a thought in a human brain. Keep cutting and you end up with a myriad of synapses and a bunch of chemicals. Try to fabricate the image of your daughters face with that. Yet slap a bunch of neurons together feed it oxygen, glucose, and give it some squirts of hormones and neurotransmitters and you can have a fond memory of your first kiss while looking at a landscape by Bierstadt and listening to Vivaldi's Four Seasons. How can all that be happening with nothing more than a bunch of synapses? Our minds emerge from our synapses, and I hope our Souls emerge from our minds, and just maybe when you get enough Souls, God emerges from them. I hope we are not mere electrochemical goo bags the walked out of a swamp. <br /><br />Great post and blog. I have booked marked it and hope to read more of your thoughts in the future. <br />Sextanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02869179401767968180noreply@blogger.com