The Big Bang occurred some thirteen billion years ago setting the creation of this universe into motion. The big bang model of the universe is quite good at explaining some phenomena that we humans observe now. The Big Bang gave birth to everything we see or observe around us like planets, stars, galaxies, gasses etc. And it also gave birth to humans. Humans' ability to question and think is what essentially makes us different from rest of the species on this planet. We found laws governing the universe and we made a lot of advancement in the field of science. But there are still some questions that we are unable to answer. There are questions about 'soul'. There are questions about 'why do we exist?'. Until recent times, only philosophers tried to answer questions like these because these were considered beyond the scope of science. Scientists reached a point where they themselves find the need to answer these questions because human curiosity demands that these questions be answered. Some of these questions are: Where does our "consciousness" come from?where does our intelligence come from? Do we have the soul and where does it lie inside our "being"?. If we try to find answers to these questions using our scientific models then we are bound to fail.
Democritus believed that if we continue dividing the matter into pieces, we will reach a point where it would be no longer possible to further break it, and he said, the smallest piece of matter would no longer be breakable and he named that piece as the atom.Thus the idea that everything is made up of small indivisible particles, called as atoms, was born. Aristotle is said to have rejected this idea of atomism because he believed that humans can't be just made up of soul-less, inanimate particles. In physics, we have a model or theory called effective theory. In calculating gravitational force between two bodies, we don't go about calculating gravitational force between each of the atoms contained in two bodies and summing them all, instead, we take one body as whole one unit and attribute to it the "mass" and calculate the force. This is "effective theory". But we know the source of gravitational force is "mass" and it comes from all those atoms constituting the body. If we try to explain the source of soul or consciousness in a similar way, we have to find it in constituting particles which we are composed of. But atoms are soul-less particles. Where does this soul come from then?.
If we can't find the source of soul or consciousness in these particles which we are made up of, we have to look for it outside our bodies?. Can it be true that our soul is not within our bodies but somewhere else?. Is our consciousness not within our bodies? if yes then where do "our" decisions, that we make, come from?. .....to be continued.
Democritus believed that if we continue dividing the matter into pieces, we will reach a point where it would be no longer possible to further break it, and he said, the smallest piece of matter would no longer be breakable and he named that piece as the atom.Thus the idea that everything is made up of small indivisible particles, called as atoms, was born. Aristotle is said to have rejected this idea of atomism because he believed that humans can't be just made up of soul-less, inanimate particles. In physics, we have a model or theory called effective theory. In calculating gravitational force between two bodies, we don't go about calculating gravitational force between each of the atoms contained in two bodies and summing them all, instead, we take one body as whole one unit and attribute to it the "mass" and calculate the force. This is "effective theory". But we know the source of gravitational force is "mass" and it comes from all those atoms constituting the body. If we try to explain the source of soul or consciousness in a similar way, we have to find it in constituting particles which we are composed of. But atoms are soul-less particles. Where does this soul come from then?.
If we can't find the source of soul or consciousness in these particles which we are made up of, we have to look for it outside our bodies?. Can it be true that our soul is not within our bodies but somewhere else?. Is our consciousness not within our bodies? if yes then where do "our" decisions, that we make, come from?. .....to be continued.
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