The materialist worldview is one that I find particularly depressing. It basically states that consciousness is nothing more than a product of brain function, and it dies out when the brain dies. This is sort of the “lights out” approach to what happens after death. We just stop existing, end of story. But is consciousness attached to the brain? It doesn’t look like it. As with so many things that once seemed scientifically absurd, quantum mechanics can help us understand how something immaterial like the mind can affect the physical body and even survive the body’s death. One tiny example is the fact that photons, for instance, act like a wave when they aren’t being observed. And as is the case with waves, the photon sort of goes out in all directions without a particular location. In this situation, several different possible realities can actually be present at once. The photon can be in multiple places at the same time. But once we observe the photon, however, it stops acting … [Read more...] about The Materialist Worldview vs. Unbounded Consciousness
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Neanderthals, Spirituality, Fertility Gods, and Quantum Physics
Neanderthals and Their Brains: Spiritual beliefs aren’t new, and honestly they aren’t even close to being new. To really help us think about this, Jesus lived about 2,000 years ago but the earliest evidence we have of spiritual activity was found within Neanderthal burials dated to about 70,000-100,000 years ago. The fact that burials were taking place was significant enough, but to add to that, the dead were often buried with tools, flowers, and were even sometimes found with painted bodies. All of this possibly suggests that the people performing these burials thought that their loved ones were going somewhere after death where they might need these things, which points to signs of a belief in the afterlife. What makes this even more interesting is the fact that compared to the human ancestors who were around prior to Neanderthals, the Neanderthals had larger brains, specifically the cortex, which is responsible for higher thought processes. The evolutionary jump may have had a … [Read more...] about Neanderthals, Spirituality, Fertility Gods, and Quantum Physics