Letters to the Editor
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Inherited Memories
I’m late to this conversation, and haven’t read everything posted. But Isn’t it conceivable that memories of past lives have a genetic component? This would be the true Occam’s razor to the concept of reincarnation.
Are we not all reincarnations of those who begat us? Is it a stretch to imagine that we may inherit memories as well as physical characteristics?
It is widely known that most of our genome appears as ‘junk,’ meaning it has no discernable purpose. Perhaps we should think again.
The author asks, “….are mental phenomena themselves physical in nature?”
This is begging the real question. Can mental phenomena exist without a physical – that is, biologically evolved - matrix?
Yes, it can. But only in the imaginations of people like Wallace. And maybe a computer chip or two.
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Sophisticated? from 2,500 years ago? give me a break
I'm suprised you let this guy write again. His ideas are symbolic of the most dangerous memes affecting our society.
For example:
In the 4th paragraph he writes "..it does have a 2,500-year history of developing and utilizing sophisticated means of observing the mind..." This is an outrageos misuse of the ambiguities of the english language. How could ideas from 2,500 year ago be in any way considered sophisticated?
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Books To Read
This may be off the subject, but I doubt it since this article seems to be about everything. One of the serious problems with the Web, and specifically Web blogs, comment lines, and opinion sharing is the implied supposition that most, if not all issues can be handled in short pithy statements of fact or near-fact.
I read a very interesting novel the other day. It's on ChristReturns dot net. It's the story of the Second Coming as if it were happenening right now. It is fiction and nonfiction at the same time. Yes, it is quite odd, but that isn't what I like about it. I like that the Christ, who claims to have written the novel, doesn't really care what you think of it. I like that he offers fiction because, "You wouldn't know fact from fiction anyway." I like that he's profane and has no problem talking about sex. It seems to me, if I were Christ, that I would do the same thing, but probably not in such an even-handed way.
He also says that God is Everything and not some small-minded hateful human, like so many small-minded hateful humans seem to think he is. And that's my two cents on the subject of everything.