If I studied close enough the inside of a computer that has MS Windows installed on it, without ever switching it on, I can still see and understand the expected behaviour. The software program is persisted as ones and zeros on a memory device.
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Jojo Jaro <jth...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Any psychological/psychiatric/**philosophical attempt to understand the > soul is doom to failure from the onset. > > Let says you're a hardware/ASIC/Electronics/IC engineer who designed the > Pentuim chip. Without understanding of the software, can you discern the > operation of a PC from your understanding of the > hardware/Chips/IC/CPU/GPU/etc? At best, you understanding would be > severely incomplete and faulty. Software is the intangible thing that > controls the behavior of the computer. Software controls the hardware. > > On the same token, experts in Psychology/Psychiatry/** > Philosophy/Sociology/Humanism/**etc, can never hope to completely > understand the Human Soul. It is that intangible entity - the soul, that > controls the hardware consisting of your brain cells/neurons, etc. The > Software soul is what needs to be understood for us to understand the > behavior of man. You need to study the soul, not the brain. The brain is > simply a mechanism that the soul controls much like the CPU chip is the > mechanism that MS Windows controls. The analogy is apt and accurate. > > Hence, one is wasting their time trying to study all the ideas of these > philosophers/psychologists/**psychiatrists/etc. They are at best > severely incomplete, at worst gravely misleading. > > If you want to understand the spiritual soul, go to the one who wrote the > software soul. Study his book - the Bible to have a better understanding > of human behavior. > > > Jojo > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Blanton" <hohlr...@gmail.com> > To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 10:15 PM > Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Quantum Soul? > > > > I think Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff have the best explanation of >> consciousness to date. It's called Orchestrated Objective Reduction, >> or Orch-OR. The two actually developed the idea separately, Sir >> Penrose being a physicist and Hameroff being a physician who >> specialized in anesthesia and cancer research. Roger was seeking a >> model of the brain that did not require computation. Hameroff wanted >> to know how anesthesia worked and where the conscious went when under. >> Penrose theorizes that spacetime is granular at the size of the >> Planck length and that quantum superposition is linked to the >> curvature. Orchestrated Reduction is the collapse of the >> superposition. >> >> Hameroff brought in the neuron microtubles which provide the >> structure. He sees a synchronous oscillation in neural MT can >> influence other neurons. Together they see these electrons as a sea >> embedded in the geometry of spacetime. >> >> Needless to say, they have many critics. :-) >> >> >> > -- Patrick www.tRacePerfect.com The daily puzzle everyone can finish but not everyone can perfect! The quickest puzzle ever!
