Wheel tracks on Mars
In discussing human affairs, an old friend said, “We as a species are so very complex and vulnerable to be lead by whoever we listen to”. I countered with, “We are a profoundly social species which accounts for how easily we can be lead. Human behavior reflects instinctive emotion… blah, blah, blah”. He countered that with, “I have seen many comparisons of primates to us. But, we, as modern man have put two little machines that send us pictures from Mars. That is a pretty big gap from primates”. Continue reading ‘Just How Big Is The Gap?’
We can prove something exist by evidence of its existence. Lack of evidence, on the other hand, doesn’t prove non existence. Thus, proofing a negative, like ‘there is no God’, is impossible.
So, is there any evidence that supports the existence of God? That depends upon whether you call belief in something to be evidence of its existence. Oddly, for a believer, belief serves as evidence. This makes a fail-safe closed loop. For example, a believer in God will point to the world around him and say how else could all this be? A believer will see this in itself as evidence. And if that were not enough, there is always the ‘word of God’ in the Bible. How do we know the Bible is the word of God, because the Bible says so? Here again, we see a fail-safe closed loop. Round and round, it is enough to make me dizzy. Continue reading ‘The Theory of God’
I am getting a kick out of watching the current ruckus over health care reform. Who is right; who is wrong? First, doesn’t that depend on one’s definition of ‘right’? If we are referring to ‘right’ from a Buddha’s Eight Fold Path point of view, then those who rant and rave on either side are certainly not Right. The rantings we see are merely emotions at play (at war actually). When emotions are at play, all discernment and impartiality go out the window. All that remains are our emotion driven biases, i.e., our needs and fears. We rarely retain even enough clarity to recognize what is happening to us. Continue reading ‘Who is Right?’
That is, you are who you are by the brain’s default mode network. A recent Science News article gives some insight on the nature of mysterious sameness, particularly here, at the end of the report:
Once people reach adulthood, activity in the network is fairly consistent from person to person, with some slight differences between the sexes and in older versus younger people, Williamson and his colleagues wrote in a 2008 paper in NeuroReport. Continue reading ‘You Are Who You Are By Default’
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