[wolfgang]

Originally Posted by InJoy

Jeesh, whattaya trying to do? Make my brain pop out through my eyes?

Hmm... music...

Well, it's not really quite the same thing. I suspect that the way the universe works actually has some real parallels with computer science, so my explanation was pretty specific.

Sorry. I'm thinking about it, but so far I'm at a loss. Maybe you could tell me where exactly I lost you?

I'll take a stab. I could see the ram and hard drive idea is kind of playing music and the score. A hard drive would have the program to run (our souls) and ram runs the program (life) while we are alive. That's similar to a score (souls) being like a program that when played (life) is to be alive. The score (souls) will continue to exist after the music stops (death).

However here's another musical analogy I dreamed up. Souls (or whatever might live on past physical death) are like notes or chords - the vibrational part of the sound. Our bodies are like the instrument, the strings of a piano. But we are not striking the strings too much. Our 3d experience is the piano strings vibrating in resounance.

However this analogy needs something else. The soul is a bunch of vibrations that are ever present - like, let's say a symphony playing on and on. And our bodies are like a piano with the dampers up (strings are open) and the strings resonate to the vibrations. We get to experience these resonate sounds. And we also can strike the strings ourselves while in 3d. When we die it's like the dampers go down on the piano strings but the symphony keeps playing.

But, then why or how would a symphony keep playing?

And this analogy isn't anything like the ram versus hard drive idea.