now that I've read all your posts I will comment :)
The thing you guys are trying to do is explain life without accepting that there may be a spiritual realm interconected with the physical realm. Weather a brain is fully organic or has been turned bit by bit into something mechanical the truth of the matter is still there, biomechanical or synthetic mechanical, they are both mechanical just made of different compounds. The problem with transfering a brain into a machine is that the concious mind, powered by some sort of unseen force does not go with the data. through science, which is puerly observation, its fair to say that the concious mind is either active with in the body, or the body is dead. The concios mind does not exist in some sort of physical form and there for cant be transfered.
How can I possibly claim that conciousnes is not contained within the physical? Because as we know anything that is mechanic must follow its proticol. Or its code. In any fleshly made creature, including humans, there are chemical reactions that occure with in the brain. these reactions occur based on the same principles as code. The eye sees something, the skin feels somethig etc the brain interperates it and tells the mind what the body is feeling.
To claim we are puerly physical is to claim we have no freedom of choice and act exactly like code, responding to certain variables interperated by our brain like a cpu.
I say we have freedom of choice and that comes from having something that exists outside of the physical that is conected to our body and our mind. We know very little outside of the physical, but we know alot about how the physical works, and the physical is puerly mechanical. Trees are puerly mechanical forms of life. They have no consiousness and grow and change by seasion based puerly on a mechanical basis. Like an organic computer program.
Understanding the physics of a realm outside of the physical is probably very impossible! lol but I think we need to stop looking to the stars for answers to life and start looking at ourselves and accept that there is something more to life then just the physical.
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