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Derek Cormier
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Energy has affinity

As this relates to string theory, one of the dimensions that these strings exist could be a dimension where we go from mere chemical reactions to a place where we are self-aware and that energy has its own attraction that continues on after conventional life ends.
My beliefs are strongly rooted in science. The more I look at our universe from the big bang to string theory, the more confused, amazed and humbled I am. Science though, I feel has failed us, or we failed it, in the belief that our existence is by random luck. I have had experiences that I cannot explain through conventional science, so I choose something less conventional. The energy, that which we call life, has an affinity to like energy. When we die, as our life energy fades, some of that energy “travels together” for a certain period of time. From time to time we are brushed by the energy of others that have passed before us and that creates some of the experiences that we are at a loss to explain. If we have things like electromagnetic attraction and gravity, why can’t we have life-energy attraction and a dimension that keeps it together? That’s my thought, one of many where I am trying to fit the pieces together as I understand them. For those that may look at this through a religious context, that is not my intent. It is simply the question that is there more than one kind of energy, and if so, can kinds of energy have affinity for its own, and if that is so, can the energy that makes us exist and self-aware remain together for any time after our know life ends?

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Adriaan Braam 10+
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Feb 1 2012: Natural energy is indeed not self-aware and cannot set goals, but spiritual energy is and can.
Our bodily energy is not a motivating force but a means to expression or activity.

I see love as our only motivator.
As Swedenborg says, "Love is the life of man[kind]." There is not the slightest voluntary movement we make without some love that causes the spending of that energy.
In fact that quote is the heading of the first chapter of this book:

http://sites.google.com/site/liveitupspiritually/home/writings/DLW_DP.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
Daniel Seiser
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Feb 1 2012: Reading your idea I think that it is wise to postulate about the energy of the soul. It might not be a concern of mainstream science yet, but it is of concern to individuals. As individuals we might make it science fiction for now(or religion) but a lot of science starts out as science fiction(or religion?). You'll forgive me if I draw on a comparison to the "Matrix". For us, everything we are able to conceive of can be boiled down to data. It's true that we could enter all of our human knowledge into a wedge of silicon. What I'm saying is that data is actually a kind of energy at a certain level of dimensionality. It's in one dimension when it's in the silicon. Computers are still mostly just great storage devices. But for now data translates into much higher function in our much more vast brain protein matrices. Like chemistry molecules, data stores potential that can be released when translated in another medium. We capture all of our concrete science in thought, and now we even capture a lot of the abstract. Math and logic transcend the concrete and lead us to greater truths because our minds have become the next laboratories of the universe. Or if you will, universes unto themselves. Maybe it used be the nucleic acids in the tide pools that the universe used to build new "random" combinations that translate. So, our minds are similar compartments that concentrate data potential, and we have access to greater dimensionality. Think about time. Is it strange to think that later we'll use technology to accelerate this progression to break through other dimensions yet again? We theorize about even recording events backwards in time due to its relativity. Well, if we learned to slice up the past we'd have a permanent record to recreate transient past data we couldn't even deal with before. Perhaps that's the medium where all souls are permanently imprinted like data on a computer. Like I said, science fiction. But playing connect the dots is fun, right?
Matthieu Miossec 100+
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Feb 1 2012: "My beliefs are strongly rooted in science." If that was true, it would be self-evident and pointing it out would be redundant. "in the belief that our existence is by random luck" Well random luck is just an expression to convey that for which cause and effect is unknowable. The universe is otherwise completely deterministic with some probabilities at the level of quantum theory (probabilities, not random)

"I have had experiences that I cannot explain through conventional science" Oh I thought I read someth"My beliefs are strongly rooted in science." oh there it is, there it is. No but seriously, an idea is very unlikely to be true if it isn't grounded in some solid framework. What you're suggesting is vague and not scientifically accurate.