Human as Patterns

[Kino]

I had an idea, maybe you can help me understand it better. I don't know if I used the right words but hopefully you can get what I was going for.

I was thinking about eternal life and the soul. I began to think if there was no spiritual afterlife. In the future maybe we could be downloaded into computers for a digital afterlife or put in robot bodies so we could continue our lives. Then I thought, wait, the chain would be broken and I would cease to be myself. I would die and someone else would gain my memories and think they were me. Just like if I was cloned (movie cloned), the other person would think he was me but would really be my clone.

Then I thought, maybe that's happening now. Maybe I'm just someone who has a collection of memories of the guy who went to sleep last night before me; on and on until the baby before us all. I'm not a constant-individual but a string of many people sharing memories. I'm a pattern of remembered experiences and thoughts, an eternal blueprint that's remade every second of every day. That was depressing to me, at first. Then I thought, that's kind of beautiful. I've never felt more at one with the universe. I thought of myself as being a canyon shaped by a river. The river are my many selves, many thoughts, shaping my memories and pattern.

That's kind of the reason the soul is so important to us though. It's something that binds us together eternally. So that when we die (clinically) and a doctor resurrects us, it's not a new person awakening to the old one's memories. It's your soul coming back to your body, the chain was never broken.

It's all perception though. Make sense?

[Ummon]

Interesting. Such a terrible avatar, though.

[Kino]

Interesting. Such a terrible avatar, though.

Avatar - 3. A temporary manifestation or aspect of a continuing entity.

I guess that's kind of what I meant. We are a continuing entity but everyday we are new Avatars of ourselves. I don't know, I'm starting to confuse myself.


Edit - My avatar...it's an angel, being tortured I guess. I like it.

[Ummon]

Indeed, you may like it: but it conveys a message (it vibrates according to a specific frequency?). According with each person's pattern, the message will resonate constructively, or destructively. The only patterns which survive, are those which cause no interference with other patterns.

Edit: the new one is better, IMHO.

[Kythras]

What was his old avatar?

[Khosson]

I think we are basicly the same person that went to slep the other night,only with a slight change of thaughts(sp).It's like with clothes...superficial change,the same person.

Verry rare the change is like the change suffered by a tree to become funiture(or a stone to become a sculpture), but it's still the same wood(or stone).You know a book that changes your perception on life etc.

By the way what was his avatar?

[Curtana]

We are information. We are made by the instruction booklet that is our DNA. Our thoughts be they chemical, electrical or physical nerve growths are information too. There is no continuity from one moment to the next - but who cares?
When you think about it everything in the universe is information down to the quantum level and beyond. It is so far beyond the scope of comprehension by our fragile little minds that it does not matter one iota imo.
So can we get back to the serious business of this avatar-off now? I move for a poll. Some kind of violent contact sport would also be preferable.