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Permalink Reply by Anon on January 29, 2013 at 2:55pm

I came here for answers, hence the first post "Question". Show up around here armed with evidence? This isn't a war.

You still haven't answered the initial question. Is there not a dualism between life and matter?

 

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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on January 29, 2013 at 3:04pm

I've answered it several times - there is no dualism to be found between life and matter.  Life is just a state of matter, nothing more.  Now it 'could' be that there is more to it, but there is zero evidence to support any such concept and plenty of evidence against many such concepts.

Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on January 29, 2013 at 3:27pm

RE: "You seem awfully defensive for no reason at all. I imagined this would be a free exchange of ideas."

I strongly suspect that that may well be because you seem to believe that if you repeat an erroneous concept often enough, that will make it true.

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Permalink Reply by Strega on January 29, 2013 at 3:11pm

If I am patterns in a brain, how can two separate brain patterns in the same brain be the same person?

Think of it like your brain patterns being part of an orchestra.  You have the strings section, and the brass section, and the percussion section, all carrying out different 'patterns'.  It is the combination of these patterns that make you uniquely you.

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on January 29, 2013 at 3:50pm

Spike Jones Band

RE: "Think of it like your brain patterns being part of an orchestra."

Mine are more like the Spike Jones Band --

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Permalink Reply by Strega on January 29, 2013 at 4:05pm

Spike Jones - I want to plot a graph on his suit!

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on January 29, 2013 at 4:19pm

Don't mock my heroes --

Permalink Reply by Strega on January 29, 2013 at 4:24pm

Sorry, Arch.  What I should have said, is "lovely plumage!" but you never answer my PMs, you don't call, you don't write....

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Permalink Reply by Strega on January 29, 2013 at 2:38pm

When a light bulb has burned out, there is still the glass shell casing where it used to give light.  Where has the light gone?  Has it moved on to an immortal plain, or has the filament inside the bulb that gave off the light, simply ended?

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Permalink Reply by Anon on January 29, 2013 at 2:43pm

The bulb has ended. You need to change it.

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Permalink Reply by Strega on January 29, 2013 at 3:02pm

And so it is with life.  It ends.

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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on January 29, 2013 at 3:07pm

If anyone needs to change me out after I have ended, I've been told the guys like me are a dime a dozen. Haven't found the store where we are sold yet, but that's really not a bad price.

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