From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:13:42 -0500, Dick Silk - The Computer Tutor wrote:
> "David Mitchell" wrote in message
> news:pan.2006.04.04.05.51.23.698355@edenroad.demon.co.uk...
>> On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:55:15 -0500, Dick Silk - The Computer Tutor wrote:
>> Well, of course, now you'd have to define "spiritual energy", and
>> explain why a soul would be sensitive to it...
>
> 1) let's assume (easily, in this case) that *any substantial, measurable
> object* must require *some* amount of energy in order to exist.
> {{I say this, because even though I know next to nothing about
> quantum physics, I am aware that there are *some* conceptual items that
> allegedly have no measurable energy. (How much energy exists in a
> simple "idea", for instance? other than the electro-chemical processes
> required to fire the brain in order to produce such an idea?
Actually, that's quite a reasonable way to talk about the energy involved
in an idea.
>
> 2) thus, assuming a spirit actually exists, it must therefore have some
> amount of "spiritual energy" associated with it, otherwise, it would NOT
> exist, correct?
I would be happier to say that it probably takes energy of some kind for a
spirit to perform cognition.
>
> 3) A spirit would be sensitive to such spiritual energy along basically
> the same reasons that a compass needle is sensitive to electro-magnetic
> fields: They're made of the same "stuff," to an extent. That is, the
> compass needle contains a magnetic force, and THAT force is susceptible
> to magnetic fields / forces. Similarly, a spirit / soul would be
> susceptible / sensitive to other spiritual energies.
That's a leap I'm not willing to take - after all, your cognition is based
on microvolt changes in electrical potential within your neurons; but you
are not sensitive to microvolt potentials in your environment.
>
>>> Speaking is a physical expression of a spiritual equation. Thus, if a
>>> spirit were *inclined* to stick around and listen to a message on
>>> an audio tape, so be it.
>>
>> ...and then explain why, as you appear to be suggesting, an audio tape
>> recorder would be capable of recording and playing back such energy.
>>
>> (Or are you suggesting something more prosaic?)
>
> No, nothing prosaic, but: recorders capture energy, pure and simple: a
> magnetic tape can record not only audio but also visual (and infra /
> ultra audio-visual) spectrums as well, in the form of magnetic or
> digital impulses on a recording surface ("medium", no pun intended!!)
Well, to be more precise, sensors capture energy, recorders use signals
based on the form of that energy to modify a recording medium so that an
approximation of the signals can be retrieved later.
> What if (and again, there's that "IF"...) spiritual / soul energy is
> also recordable by a tape-recorder?
Why would it be?
In this case, the sensors are designed to detect changes in atmospheric
pressure at audio frequencies, and while they _are_ sometimes also
sensitive to e-m, great care is usually taken to filter these unwanted
signals out.
> In such a case, all this positive
> energy is recorded on a tape, played back to a dying person, and that
> person's spirit / soul is then influenced by said recorded energies
> being played back.
You would also have to assume that the tape recorder would have equipment
capable or generating changes in "spiritual energy", and there is no
reason to suppose that is the case.
>
> Now: was that worth the time it took to type, or is it still just a
> waste of time / energy corresponding with you?
Never having done so, I couldn't possibly comment. ;-)
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