Posted: Nov 20, 2019 7:48 pm
ORZIL wrote:Finally, could you explain to me in a scientific way why you don't believe in spirits? according to scientific skepticism?
That would be hard with the limitations of language available to us.
In basic form, the universe's most foundational character is thermodynamic; the exchange of energy for stuff to happen. Energy gets locked up doing work in a system and typically exchanged to heat in the process. For you to live, you must eat - that food is converted in your body to usable energy to fuel your movement and physical functions. Doing so also produces heat - which is why I originally mentioned the idea of spirits giving off heat.
A spirit, however, is like an electronic device without a battery and no means to power it. This is so contrary to the most fundamental aspects of our universe, I cannot see how a spirit could exist within the universe.
To then try and justify that would require adding ever more complex entities, all of which are not evident and would be outside the scope of any plausible experiment we could do to test the idea. We'd basically be wish-thinking our way to oblivion.
One thing you can ask yourself and it's something that motivates a lot of my decisions when there is little resting on it: does the idea offer you any benefit? What can you do with that idea? If you hold that idea up as a candle to light your way through the darkness of existence, does it reveal anything that substantially helps you? Or is it just a nice idea you quite like?
As a skeptic, I don't care about what things I'd like to be true, only what I am obliged to believe is true through weight of evidence.
ORZIL wrote:I think you should read these books.
I won't promise I will as I have lots of books that are higher on my priority.
However, if I do happen to, I will be reading them out of historical interest rather than out of interest in the validity of the claims therein.
¡Hasta luego!