RobotRipping
Bluelighter
Okay, so no bullshit answers here where people wax philosophical on me. However if you have a spiritual view point that's fine or a scientific one or a hybrid, either will suffice.
I've been thinking about the nature of life itself for a while now and maybe this thread can help me grasp it a bit better. The way i see it is that since the beginning of life or life forms, there has been life, like a torch that has been kept lit forever. Life has not appeared or come from nothing, ie life can't come from something not living. Therefore life has always existed less we come to an infinite regression.
So ever since there were humans (i know evolution and such but just for example) there has never been one time, not a single time, where human life did not exist. It's been continuous and if humans were completely destroyed, humans would never again live.
This brings me to a bigger point. At some point in the future we are going to have the technology to create a human from scratch, we'll have the brain figured out and the body figured out and can look at it as some sort of bioelectrical machine. However how do we get that life part of it in that machine? Wouldn't we need something living to add to that machine to make it alive and conscious? or is consciousness formed from our sensations and something that a computer or a machine could develop with the right technology?
If that is the case then we can make a claim that the universe just happened, big bang, everything formed, somehow life formed, evolved, gained consciousness and here we are. If it's not the case then something had to hit that first button to create the domino effect of life (in other words, there is a God).
Well those are my thoughts and i'm curious to see how people interpret these ideas and whether there are holes in my theories or if they have been already expanded upon by others. Some of my ideas are influenced by Aquinas and others from psychedelic states. I'm not looking for answers as to why? but more on the nature of life itself. What is life? how can we create it without life already?
I've been thinking about the nature of life itself for a while now and maybe this thread can help me grasp it a bit better. The way i see it is that since the beginning of life or life forms, there has been life, like a torch that has been kept lit forever. Life has not appeared or come from nothing, ie life can't come from something not living. Therefore life has always existed less we come to an infinite regression.
So ever since there were humans (i know evolution and such but just for example) there has never been one time, not a single time, where human life did not exist. It's been continuous and if humans were completely destroyed, humans would never again live.
This brings me to a bigger point. At some point in the future we are going to have the technology to create a human from scratch, we'll have the brain figured out and the body figured out and can look at it as some sort of bioelectrical machine. However how do we get that life part of it in that machine? Wouldn't we need something living to add to that machine to make it alive and conscious? or is consciousness formed from our sensations and something that a computer or a machine could develop with the right technology?
If that is the case then we can make a claim that the universe just happened, big bang, everything formed, somehow life formed, evolved, gained consciousness and here we are. If it's not the case then something had to hit that first button to create the domino effect of life (in other words, there is a God).
Well those are my thoughts and i'm curious to see how people interpret these ideas and whether there are holes in my theories or if they have been already expanded upon by others. Some of my ideas are influenced by Aquinas and others from psychedelic states. I'm not looking for answers as to why? but more on the nature of life itself. What is life? how can we create it without life already?