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Originally Posted by Anagogy  No.
The mind is like an information field, or even a program we might say, and the body is like a computer. If your computer doesn't have the hardware to support a given program, you cannot load or express that program on the computer.
However, this doesn't mean the program didn't exist UNTIL it was on the computer. Perhaps it was floating around on the net for example, or maybe it was being beamed through space as a satellite signal, just waiting to be received.
As the body computer grows, it becomes more and more able to accommodate the expression of more and more of the "soul software". Just like computers with crappy graphics cards can't play highly advanced games, the body computer that is not developed cannot support all the cognitive functions available to the "program" that is our soul.
More complex souls require more complex bodies. For example, many animals do not have "self awareness", as that is not a level of complexity that their souls are patternized for, they DO have "awareness" though, its just not of their "selves". It's of their environments, and whatever else they are experiencing. They just aren't ego driven like human beings are.
Consciousness isn't this thing that is only in some things and not in others, it permeates the immensity of ALL space and ALL matter. Even dirt is conscious. Not conscious in the way you and I or even animals are conscious, but it *IS* conscious nonetheless. |
Ahhhh! I see now! That makes good sense. It makes me feel really special then that I am a human, one of the complex bodies necessary for my complex soul!
But that leads me to this question; why didnt God (or who/whatever) make us with brains that worked right away? What is the point of having that time where it doesn't work? Well, I don't mean it doesnt WORK but you know what I mean, able to comprehend itself?