02-27-2025, 10:59 PM
I'd say the *pattern* of electricity between the cells is the ghost, but that's just I.
A tried truism is that there are no minds without bodies (variant of the prisoner's "everybody's got to be somewhere") but the "body" could be a pattern in electric currents. Or water, or air, anything that can be organized even momentarily. The ghost is in the machine, but the ghost is not the machine and the machine is not the ghost.
Yet death is not exactly a co-equal myth, for the active spirit can't actually comprehend it - being the one thing it is not. The end of all songs is silence, though it can be argued that silence is never complete.
I nicely argued poem.
A tried truism is that there are no minds without bodies (variant of the prisoner's "everybody's got to be somewhere") but the "body" could be a pattern in electric currents. Or water, or air, anything that can be organized even momentarily. The ghost is in the machine, but the ghost is not the machine and the machine is not the ghost.
Yet death is not exactly a co-equal myth, for the active spirit can't actually comprehend it - being the one thing it is not. The end of all songs is silence, though it can be argued that silence is never complete.
I nicely argued poem.
Non-practicing atheist