The donut soul paradox, why are we conscious

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[This is a post that I am still writing on, editing some misspellings and adding a few things in. Still, I have published it, because I believe I have withen egnuff for people to reed and comment. But just so you know, more will come shortly. 27. January 2009]

In this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGTleaTCXq8&feature=related) vdizhoor asks what if we froce you down, copied all your molecules and made an other you, then exchanged 50% of the molecules between your bodies, then waked you up placing either a beer or a donut at the side of you. Who would you be? Would you see the beer or the donut?

Lets take an other example, taken from a startec-episode: Two persons travels with a teleport. Something wrong happens and out of the teleport comes one person, bearing the genetics, the molecules, and the memory of both persons. Who is this person?

If we had even more advanced medicine than today we could split a person with it's brain in 2 (the two parts of the brain, left and right hemisphere, can work perfectly on their own), and you would sudenly have 2 persons. Which one would you be? I will answer bout. And that can not be understood with the ordinary soul-thinking that is teached in almost every religion in the world (at least the ones I know about).

We must get away from the thinking of a soul, somthing every person has, that is either, belived by some religions; sent to heaven or hell when we die, or by other religions; just takes part of a new person. The first one is sientifacly stupid becouse there is know evidence, and now reason why it should be that way. The second one is, thought belived as more sientificly corect, just as stupid. You have lots of anarkists still beliving in a soul. The question is why would there be a soul if there is no god? Is there a force in the universe that somehow creates a soul when a living thing comes to live?

We know one thing though, we have a consciousness. We know we are alive, we sense the world. We are not just mechanical objects wandering around. And that is wery strange to me. Why is it like this? Why does some electrical/chemical signals in the brain, besides moving the body around in response to the environment making the body survive long egnuff to replicate it's geens, why is it so that we can feel this prosess, that we are conscious? In a physical world, of atoms and radiation, why do we feel anything?

I belie there is no "soul" as we think about it, but that it, our consciousness, is made up of electrical signals interactions in the brain. I tend to belie that there might be a "soul", one single "soul" in the entire universe, filling all of human beings at the event of these chemical reactions, and the only thing that separates 2 persons (or animals) is that our brains are not attached. So: you will see bout the donut AND the beer, but you will think that you are only one of this persons...

Overpopulation is not the reason of poverty in southern Africa

With this enormasly long hedline I herby open my blog LimitedByReality. Don't mind the name of the blog, it was just somthing I came up with, and alldough I have plans to discuss this team later. What I realy want to do with this blog is to attack statements that I think are falce, becouce they do not see the whole picture and/or are misinterpreting it.

To get stright to my point. Many people belive that overpopulation is the reason for a countries poverty. I'll compare 2 country. One of them is 825,418 km2 large (about twice as large as the state of Calefornia), the other being 41,526 km2. The largest country has a population of about 2.1 million, the one with only 41.5K km2 a population of 16.5 million. Which country would you expect to be the richest/poorest? Which country would have the largest unemployment-rate?

The country that is 41.5K km2 large and populated with 16million people is The Netherlands. The other country is Namibia in south Africa. While Namibia has a GDP of $13.653 billion ($6,611 per capita) Netherlands has a GDP of $876.970 billion, or $52,499 per capita, being about 8 times as many people. While unemployment in Namibia is 30-40% the Netherlands has kept it stable under 4%, event trough the financial crises.

This points, that third world countries problems are not overpopulation but rather other factors such as mismanagement and corruption is mentioned by overpopulation.com ("Indonesia’s problem — like much of the poor in the Third World — is endemic mismanagement and corruption, not its increase in population and/or wealth.")

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