25 ene 2010

Is soul a product of body functions?



The eternal fight is science against God; I think this is where this question begins. So I think that because scientist has more proofs I’m going to believe them so the answer is yes, to me, soul is part of body functions. God may say that there is this thing that is bodiless which controls feelings but now it just sounds ridiculous. Scientist have proof that feelings occur in a certain part of the brain, and memory in other part, and thinking in other, all of those are only a biological process that now we are able to understand.
I guess that in some part of time people were desesperate to find answers, and science wasn´t so developed as it is now so probably this idea of soul began as an answer to all those questions that were going on. But now we can choose to believe in facts instead of believing in the things that blindly everyone is trying to make you believe.
I know it sucks to stop believing in all that fantasy that people are saying but this fantasy it’s only the easy way but not the right one, it’s better to believe in stuffs that can be proved. So as science says I choose to believe in what they say, soul is a product of body functions, biological processes.

7 ene 2010

I want stairs long enough to reach the Hyperuranus


In here I´ll try to explain what Plato said about the world and the ideas. First it´s important that we understand that we live in the Gaia, is where we can see and touch everything but even if we are so sure about the existence of things because we can sense them Plato said that what we really see is a reflection of what the real world is, is like watching only the shadow of what the reall world is. The Gaia is not real because is not true, (may be shadows can think and they believe they are real because they dont know that there is a world out there and they are just a mere reflection, that probably happens to us, we dont know other reality so we thing we are real) but there is a place where there are real thing, lets understand the world like a three steps stair first is the Gaia ( where we live) the second step is the Uranus (the sky) and the third stage is the Hyperuranos where the real thing are. I like that Plato can go so far, it must be very hard to believe that what we live its a lie, that its not beatiful and that there is a bigger thing out there that we can´t see (the ideas world). To say that our world is not real is a very risky idea but if we don´t take risk we will never make something big, he probably was taken as crazy by some people but now that we are not so afraid of his ideas we get closer to understand what he was really trying to say.

In Socrates We Trust


Socrates represent the revolution in a time were everything was perfect, I think that is much easier to fight against a wrong society but Socrate´s society looked almost perfect and still he found problems. He was against of the sophist, they were people who get paid by thinking and teaching. In that era the fight between the public and the private education, this make us understand that ussually the big confrontation start very long time ago and that the big problems last forever. In his time he was very polemic because he had a lot of followers but the sophist hated him because he believed in public education. I like that he showed that it didn´t matter if he was only a student but he still had the chance to argument and to question what the teacher said, it shows that it doesn´t matter the position where you´re talking, what really matters is the things we´re saying. What I like too is that he shared his ideas only by talking, he didn´t wrote anything, sometime we think that the only way to spread wisdom is by writing books but to talk is a good way too that shouldn´t be underrated.

5 ene 2010

Hug A Tree


We may belive that naturalism is just another hippie idea to stop global warming, but we are very wrong if we think that, there is plety of things we don´t know. First this movemente came out a long time ago when a group of thinkers start asking questions about nature, they belivied that nature whas the most important thing and that we should think what nature really is. With this idea of asking what nature is made of a impressive theory came out, the atomic thoery, its amazing that we all know what an atom is but we dont know were the idea came from. This guy called anaximadros said that nature was made of this really small things, like lego, the small thing create different thing and from that came other question (as always in philosophy) ¿if everything is made of the same thing how can a thing be different from other? and the answer was that the pieces were different depending on what they can form. An atom was said that was undivisible but nowdays we know that they can be divisible but anymay we still thing that everything on earth is made of this small pieces. This travel through time made us undertand were does the word atom and all the theory about it came from.