Interesting.
THE EXPERIENCE OF A UNIFIED MIND AND THE POSSIBILITY OF AN EVERLASTING SOUL ARE CONNECTED. AND THERE IS SCANT EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE EXISTENCE OF EITHER.
For the believers in the soul, let’s call them soulists, the soul assumption appears to be only the smallest of steps from the existence of a unified mind. Yet the soul is a claim for which there isn’t any evidence. Today, there isn’t even evidence for that place soulists step off from, the unified mind. Neurology and neuroscience, working unseen over the past century, have eroded these ideas, the soul and the unified mind, down to nothing. Experiences certainly do feel unified, but to accept these feelings as reality is a mistake. Often, the way things feel has nothing to do with how they are.
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Now consider yourself. Consider your own left arm. It feels perfect, under your control, a part of you, exactly where it should be. But this unified perception relies on neuronal machinery humming in the background, far beneath conscious awareness. Your sense of unity, only perceptible to you, is a sheen on the surface, not a deeper layer of reality.
Where does this leave the soul? Does the soul make any sense in the face of a brain and mind so easily fractured by ischemia? A soul is immaterial, eternal, a little god, impervious to injury, able to survive our deaths. Yet here we see one injured, tethered so close to the injured brain that there is no string. We see a hole, and through it we get a glimpse into the brain’s inner workings. One part is damaged; another part falsely thinks it is whole. How does the idea of a unified soul make any sense in the face of this data?
I may even put on real clothes today.
Eh, overrated.
Wish I could fly out and keep you company for a couple of days. Make a few Trader Joe's runs (and stock up my suitcase). Marathon some SPN or Dr. Who or somthing like that.
HELLO Ms. NO LYMPH NODE INVOLVEMENT!
Potassium Chlorate + A Red Gummy Bear
St. Albans Science Dept shows what happens when a gummy bear is dropped in a test tube of potassium chlorate.
Molten potassium chlorate is a strong oxidizing agent that reacts violently with sugar. Gummy bears have lots of sugar in them.
Yeah, I can see how girl pee might be generally less attracting to guys than steak. If it`s not, I don`t wanna know.
I have dated a guy about whom you do not want to know.
Ahahaha!!! Considering that The Boy is a vegetarian, I will have to ask him his feelings on girl pee vs. steak.
(NO IT HAS NOT COME UP BEFORE.)
YAY NO LYMPH NODE INVOLVEMENT!
Yay for mom progress!
Yay for Kathy sleep study!
I had more, but I forget.
Oh! We are getting serious serious rain. We got rained out of class this morning. Which stinks because today was a double up day, so we got up super early to make our two hour drive to class. About forty five minutes in, it was clear we weren't going to make it. The highway was near flooding, it was coming down in droves, and intellicast said it wouldn't let up all day.
So we may be canceled for our afternoon classes too, but I have no way of knowing this until later. So I will just be tired all day.
The SO ran into town to try to get some errands done before we get completely flooded. If he makes it to the farmers market and they're there, he may be coming home with bunches of tomatillos for me to make salsa verde and can.
In whiny news, I have a cold. And a full afternoon of meetings tomorrow. And a wedding on Saturday! I'm hoping going to bed early tonight will cure me, because if it doesn't, I will be pissed. And possibly calling in sick on Friday, which seems like cheating, somehow.
