Originally Posted by
Neruo
Yeah, PenguinLord13, nice to see someone understands what I was saying :)
No problem, welcome.
Ah. The 'Grand conscious' theory, or some variation on it. A 'spiritual world/universe' as you call it. It is a pretty well-known hypothesis. Even I believe there might be something similar to it, in a way. However, big difference, I believe it is purely 'man-made', it didn't exist before mankind, as you said. I believe that if it might exist, and perhaps it might, it can be scientifically explained. I don't think it is metaphysical, godly or anything magic like that.
My biggest argument against it is: How do you explain evolution if this 'Grand conscious' exist? It would mean something directed evolution, right?. I mean, do we just tap into it, or is it almost 'designed' for humans? Otherwise, can animals also tap into it? Don't forget all our minds are, is some electric interaction between cells. It really doesn't sound logic to me that there is some special universe for our minds, that did nothing for 99.99% of the time of the universe.
Lets say it is (subconsciously) 'man-made': it wasn't always around, or lets say it exists because it can, assuming there is an infinity of universes, including that spiritual one, outside our material universe. In the first case: What connects all those people? In the universe-case: how can our brain-waves or whatever pass trough to another universe, while nothing we know can?
Basically, it by far isn't impossible, there just isn't any proof what so ever, expect for some cases that don't mean much.
For instance, often people that get a genius idea say they felt like they didn't come up with it, but that they just 'received' it, as it they plucked it from a well of thought outside of their own mind. But does that means there is such an uber-conscious? Maybe our minds just work in a way that makes us feel that way. As in the same way that I think Chi is bullshit, but those chi-channeling stuff monks do actually works on some physiological/neurological level (and not on a 'magical', weird-energy-flows level).[/b]