Astonishing Hypothesis

Date: Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:19 pm Subject: astonishing hypothesis

i would like to argue that humans are more than just neurons firing, that we have a soul, that we have meaning, but i can't. i can't believe in a soul because i see it as something spiritual. Crick uses the material world to find answers, and i think everyone should do the same. maybe our consciousness is a bunch of neurons firing and maybe it's not. we won't know until further reasearch is conducted. i thought all of Crick's thinking and Lane's explanations were very insightful. i'm not so sure about the location of free will in the brain though. everyone's always trying to locate everything in the brain. but if we're looking at this materialistically, should "freewill" even be considered as part of our brain? because free will is something god supposedly gave us. shouldn't we call it our decision making part of our brain or something like that? i dont know, i'm not a research scientist yet. call me in five years.