Is the brain necessary for consciousness?

Agreed

Hence so do we in our thinking .

 

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The Universe is "universing"........

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Might that be a form of life? Other than the violent and chaotic production of the necessary chemistry and biochemistry, it seems evolve in a fairly orderly manner.

 

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It might be . Or the inside of the brain of a being , some call this being god .

 

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Well, I believe the term God identifies a willful being and I don't believe the universe is willful,

But when I think of chaos theory; "a butterfly flaps his wings in China and eventually causes a storm in Texas, US" by sheer mathematical functions, I begin to wonder, at what stage does "life" begin.

Or a star blows up and 10 billion years later a butterfly hatches from a cocoon that used to be a caterpillar. One organism morphing into a completely different organism, using the atomic waste from a supernova.

How Does a Caterpillar Turn into a Butterfly?

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/caterpillar-butterfly-metamorphosis-explainer/

What exactly is the meaning of "anime" (other than cartoons) ?

 

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You have to figure that out for yourself . And why it matters , here .

 

Well, it doesn't mean "elan vital" or "'Joie de vivre"

 

In English Write4U . Please .

 

Why don't you tell me what you think it means. In English.

 

No idea . Seriously no idea .

 

But you do know what it is not?

 

Obviously not . Logically . Post#227

 

Elan vital

Definition of élan vital;

Joie de vivre

Definition of joie de vivre

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Eduard von Grützner's depiction of Falstaff, a literary character well known for his joie de vivre

 

A joy in anything that one might do . Careful .

 

The expression is also used as a kind of self-generating process of finding comfort in balance or symmetry.

 

Joy

Being in a good place . Physically , mentally , and spiritually . All three or getting there . And with good people , sometimes .

 

This is an in-depth examination of how consciousness actually takes place.