[ExI] [Extropolis] Religion

[Keith Henson]

Up thread, someone asked about religions started as a result of brain injury.

Google:

“Mary Baker Eddy” temporal lobe epilepsy Ellen White temporal lobe epilepsy.

I remember seeing somewhere that Martin Luthar had related mental problems.

Best wishes,

Keith


On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 5:38 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat
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> As for dreams, we know our brains are capable of far deeper number crunching that we typically perform, whether it’s the abilities of mathematical savants, or people who memorize extremely long sequences or complicated procedures, or 3d rendering abilities that we can’t comprehend mathematically.  So I see no reason why dreams can’t reveal things that are the result of intricate logic/number crunching and pattern recognition.  If we live in a deterministic universe, wouldn’t prophecy be possible?
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> On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 5:16 PM efc--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 10 Aug 2024, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
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>> > On Fri, Aug 9, 2024, 5:11 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> >       Re: that, this site is an incredible I Ching reference: https://jamesdekorne.com/GBCh/GBCh.htm
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>> > This confirms my impression of I Ching as something like tarot: a bunch of broadly applicable statements that one is expected to
>> > apply to one's own situation, without considering how most - probably all - of the others could also apply, had one (or however many
>> > you drew) of them been randomly selected instead.
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>> > In other words, the predictive value of drawing one versus another is zero.  They can, however, be useful as mental focusing aids for
>> > considering one's situation.
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>> This is my view of iching, dreams and tarot. Kind of creative writing
>> aids. But they inspire you to come up with things, as you yourself, use
>> its input to come up with things. Could be a deck of playing cards, role
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