Quantum mechanics (QM) experiments (related to Bell’s inequality) have shown that reality does NOT exist when we are not observing it. [1] This is amazing. Although at this point some objections still arise concerning this conclusion, it is really important to know that science has began thinking about concepts that have for a long time been a matter of ridicule in mainstream science communities among the “experts” of the field of physics.
Close your eyes…
Imagine…
A new research in Human Molecular Genetics [1] [2] shows that smoking can be related to changes in genes of specific segments of the DNA, thus increasing cancer risk.
Weird how the same changes that are supposed to lead to the evolution of species from bacteria to the humans, are in other cases considered “bad”.
Smoking has been banned due to the obvious reasons of not having to put 20mg of chemicals into your organism just for… the fun of it. Any other attempt to justify this decision genetically will always hit wall on the “random changes -> Evolution” counter-argument. Who really knows if these epigenetic changes are not leading to some beneficial changes into the genome?
In one of this year’s bionic breakthroughs, a paralyzed woman carried out her own superhuman feat: Using an implanted brain chip, she controlled a robotic arm with her mind. [1]
Scientists jumped to the roof out of joy.
But what are we to celebrate here?
The “with her mind” is the key sentence. Is it the mind who controls the brain? Or is brain and mind the same thing alltogether?
Such breakthroughs are often misinterpreted as a “proof” of the materialistic nature of consciousness or thought. But how “many electrons” constitute a thought? How much “heavy” is a… thought?
These experiments show that our brain can control something which gets current as input. We are made out of cells which create energy like an electrochemical cell does. All of our cells are small powerplants of electrocity. And if our brain sends the right signal, then it can make something move. However that does not answer questions with have to do with the mind-brain debate. We are not able to know whether it is the brain which creates these signals because… random movements happened in it (?), or whether the mind of the person under investigation gave the order to the brain cells to function that way.
Too often we misinterpret what we see based on what we believe.
If only philosophical questions were solved so easily…
A new study suggests that excess holiday eating disturbs your ‘Food Clock’. Funny though. Humans eat more every year on holidays for the past hunderds of years. How come that our inner “food clock” has not yet adapted to these habbits? We should train our inner clock. Not be slaves to it. [1]
Exercise your Free Will!
Eat more!
It is Christmas!
When doctors are on strike, the mortality rate stays the same or, many times, falls!!! [1, 2, 3, 4] Sometimes common logic is based on nothing else than common misconceptions…
> Updated the relevant section of the Religion and Science Unification article.
