Death & Eternity

[Mallette]

8 minutes ago, Bosco-d-gama said:

If there’s any fun to the conundrum it is in the human conscious  ability to ponder it deeply. 

Always a profound statement. "Cogito ergo sum." As to anything after death, the issue has much in common with the earlier comments on "what happened "before" the big bang?" As with the "before" issue, "after" is equally impenetrable to our temporal beings though as with the "before" issue it is clear there is a mystery there.

Dave

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Here.

SSH

[Travis In Austin]

On 9/3/2018 at 8:56 AM, Bosco-d-gama said:

Research in cellular regeneration is an ongoing endeavor and more of our brains do regenerate than was previously understood. Insofar as an individualized ‘soul’ separate from a physical entity we see that animal clones do not retain character or personality traits. Your newly cloned pet will not be the same pet it was cloned from. I assume it would be the same for humans. People do not see themselves in how they interact with the environment. When we gain or lose weight much of the variance comes from gaseous co2. We pull co2 from the environment when we gain mass and add co2 to the environment when we lose mass. Gaseous carbon dioxide is actually quite heavy and humans exhale tons of the stuff.

 

Homochirality is another scientific enigma. Amino acids are the building blocks of all life. Amino acids come in 2 physical states, one spirals leftward the other is a mirror image that spirals to the right. When we make amino acids in the lab we always get an even mix of both types but everywhere we find them in nature the ‘left’ spiral dominates. They have looked at amino acids found in comet samples and found the same disparity.  When it comes to organisms practically all living things on earth are made from only left handed amino acids. Right handed amino acids exist but are rarely found in living organisms (this includes all plant life too). Science wants to know where the right handed amino acids went to and why they are incompatible with life. Theories exist but none are proven.

 

There are lots of mysteries to be solved and many new ones yet to be defined. So far we cannot examine what occurs after death. We only know what can be witnessed in life. We do place humans in short term suspended animation for certain types of surgery. No beating heart and no circulation for quite sometime, and then we reanimate the patient. Some frogs and fish freeze solid for winter and return to life in the spring thaw. We fear death because it is an unknown and perhaps because for sometime we’ve been inculcated with the notion of a judgemental consequence for our living earthly actions. If there’s any fun to the conundrum it is in the human conscious  ability to ponder it deeply. 

 

 

 

 

 

That (the ability to ponder it deeply) and the ability to freeze your head and thaw it out some day.