(2020-10-10, 05:47 PM)Brian Wrote: I used to have that problem with the Star Trek teleporter.
Perhaps the "soul" is in a way separate from the body but nonetheless requires a body in order to be conscious. That way we can perhaps accept resurrection better while allowing for a sleeping soul. It's also akin to something I have been thinking a lot of - namely that consciousness and matter require each other in order to exist.
I always thought the Star Trek way of getting around the question was to say your entire body shifts into energy and then becomes flesh again. Admittedly one could argue even this is a kind of death...though Star Trek also had Psi, Spock's soul transference, psychic vampires, and even arguably "gods" (Q continuum entities) so its position on these questions seemed open ended...anyway more of a Farscape man myself...
As for consciousness and matter, I think I know what Consciousness is but Matter remains a mystery since all I know of it is through Consciousness...and not sure I could easily describe the Consciousness despite my intimate experiential knowledge...
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
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