Different in degree or kind (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 20:09 (3819 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: If only you could prove that God specially made man, you'd be able to say God exists. Mind you, if anyone could prove that God made all forms of life by inventing an intelligent mechanism that enabled cells to...ah well...-Agreed. I have to move at some point to faith. the evidence for me reaches that point.
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> dhw:Interesting. If you wish to limit the soul to humans, you certainly have to believe in your "difference in kind".-I believe animals have one kind of soul and we another. Another gap.-> dhw:Following my pet panpsychist hypothesis, and if I believed in a soul, I would argue that energy is contained within all organisms, and as life forms become more complex, so the individualized energies become more complex too (i.e. evolve). All individualized energies. That might be the source of your species consciousness too. I don't suppose you'll like the idea, though. Not anthropocentric enough, eh?-Fits the ideas of many of the thinking quantum theorists:-http://www.uncommondescent.com/physics/what-great-physicists-have-said-about-immateriality-and-consciousness/-I have aware of this philosophic approach to QM for many years. QM works through consciousness.Read David Bohm for an even more mystical approach.