There they go ....
The Bohemians
Here they come.....
Machine Man
A heated debate has started. It has been brewing for some time now. I really hope there will be answers. But a natural inclination to play Devils Advocate means the debate will propagate for a while, I fear. The question itself somewhat philosophical, somewhat profound. Can the Soul and Ego co-exist in perfect Symmetry?
...Thursday, I eagerly looked out of the train window, Desperately scanning and searching the meadows beside the picturesque River Kennet. I was looking for the herd of cows I had seen this morning. There they are! In almost the same formation I saw earlier. Nine sitting cows clustered together looking in one direction only; up at the one standing cow, who looks on at them. With a supreme air of authority, standing cow looks down at them. Is standing cow there by divine authority or by intelligent design? Is this the same standing cow from this morning ? via a democratic system, through testable, repeatable and measurable means and processes or is standing cow there by her own free will, through her own convictions of consciousness?
After several musings, interlaced with the deeply moving music of John Rutter's Requiem Aeternam, I found my mind in a state of transitory peace, a stillness, where the mind and body inexplicably unite for a split second, unlocking the portal to the subconscious. It is here that the questions arrived naturally to me: what is the Soul, what is Ego,?
'You,' your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules." The Astonishing Hypothesis, The Scientific Search for the Soul - Francis Crick
The Bohemians
Here they come.....
Machine Man
A heated debate has started. It has been brewing for some time now. I really hope there will be answers. But a natural inclination to play Devils Advocate means the debate will propagate for a while, I fear. The question itself somewhat philosophical, somewhat profound. Can the Soul and Ego co-exist in perfect Symmetry?
...Thursday, I eagerly looked out of the train window, Desperately scanning and searching the meadows beside the picturesque River Kennet. I was looking for the herd of cows I had seen this morning. There they are! In almost the same formation I saw earlier. Nine sitting cows clustered together looking in one direction only; up at the one standing cow, who looks on at them. With a supreme air of authority, standing cow looks down at them. Is standing cow there by divine authority or by intelligent design? Is this the same standing cow from this morning ? via a democratic system, through testable, repeatable and measurable means and processes or is standing cow there by her own free will, through her own convictions of consciousness?
After several musings, interlaced with the deeply moving music of John Rutter's Requiem Aeternam, I found my mind in a state of transitory peace, a stillness, where the mind and body inexplicably unite for a split second, unlocking the portal to the subconscious. It is here that the questions arrived naturally to me: what is the Soul, what is Ego,?
'You,' your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules." The Astonishing Hypothesis, The Scientific Search for the Soul - Francis Crick
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