KI explanation

[Zhong Gau]

lets examine these concepts: spirits, energy.

 

assuming you believe in god or jesus and/or the devil and/or malicious and malevolent spirits then we're talking about various degrees of animism.

 

Animistic beliefs throughout cultures with a predominantly oral tradition are founded on a belief in a universal energy which provides the protomatter from which all things are made in both neumenal and physical realities. this protomatter is used to form the spirit or soul of a person before it chooses whom its parents will be. the spirit then enters a pregnant woman and attaches itself to her and uses her body to form its own. the spirit goes through life make choices and enjoying or suffering the consequences of thier choices. after the body dies the spirit can return to the quiet essence from which it emoted or continue as an unsettled being, or even merely to continue with its' life and goals around others.

 

this basic cultural foundation of belief in afterlife which is the precedent to the establishment of philosophy and religion exists in most cultures. 95% of the world's populations believe in some form of animisitic religion or religion with animistic elements.

 

In terms of classical western philosophy the question is called "ontology" or being and reality. there are other aspects of the question that are referred to as "metaphysics" which entertain ideas along the 'spookie' end of the question. ontology and metaphysics are integregrated in every major philosophical system in the history of human existance and recorded experience.

 

So, just because you haven't experienced anything in a laboratory; or seen it in a photograph that can be explained by a method that can't be reproduced with a computer; or haven't had any non drug induced experiences with alternate reality don't say that it doesn't exist. chances are your parents or grandparents or greatgrandparents swore by thier beliefs be they totally physically orientated or mixed.

 

Most people who believe in other beings do so out of some economic need. wheather its filial reciprocity or because you or an ancestor made a deal with a spirit for protection...whatever... somewhere in your family there's probably someone alive who can refer and recount the tradition or event to you.

 

from what i've heard, just like your grandparents asking why you need science and edjucation beyond a certain level of achievement, old ghosts probably feel the same way, "will it put bread on the table? how does this help you? do you feel better?". Labs probably remind the recently deceased of the morgue or the preparation chambers of the funeraries. You don't find many of us life loving folks there do you?