The condition of humanity is constant addiction, is inner sadness, and we do not understand. Humans are driven, some unknown, something within, I cannot yet point to the origin, nor say why we are driven or for what purpose. We are driven by oneself, programmed desires and by other things. We are not purely mechanical beings. Just because we have a non-mechanical nature does not mean this non-mechanical nature is the result of God, a soul, or any supernatural thing. To rationally claim our non-mechanical nature is a result of a supernatural thing, one would first need supernatural experience of a supernatural reality(not physical; not to be confused with energies one may experience in the body in the involvement of one's religion), which at best few could claim. Even in the unlikely event you have an actual genuine supernatural experience, anything you see, is not necessarily what you may believe it to be based on your particular religious upbringing.
The non-mechanical nature of life is not governed solely by quantum-mechanical effects as quantum-mechanical effects do not logically lead to the observed behaviors of higher lifeforms. Also when you take the average of a large number of quantum-mechanical effects(a block of iron atoms vs a single iron atom) you approach classical behavior, which is mechanical and predictable in nature. To be clearer some scientists believe that quantum physics can be used as a way to explain the phenomena of life, and sometimes specifically of choice due to small apparently unpredictable fluctuations at the quantum level. No logical argument exists however to suppose that is the case. These unpredictable fluctuations are due however to a number of known causes. One is you cannot completely isolate an atom or proton or electron from the ambient environment. You have gravitational fields, electric fields, radio waves and other light waves(just radio waves are often unusually difficult to block), vibrations, neutrinos, and various other weak interacting matter that can disturb this particle that you are trying to measure. Plus by measuring a particle you are imparting some energy to that particle, thus effecting its motion.
Higher ordered lifeforms express a greater degree of this non-mechanicality, which begs the question why. Higher ordered life is at least partially the result of having a greater degree of specialization within cells, which comes with a larger percent of intron based dna. Most of science is the study of the mechanical nature of physical reality. However a non-mechanical nature exists within lifeforms and may even exist in things we do not consider to be life. However the non-mechanical nature of physical reality is a mostly unstudied science, which is due mainly to its unpredictability, i.e. we cannot find a direct cause. The closest explanation for the non-mechanical nature of physical reality is choice or something that resembles choice.
The physical sciences have advanced much lately in the past hundred years. However the understanding of the mechanical nature of physical reality is incomplete. Physicists have been desperately seeking a unified field theory, but noone has publicly presented one that is acceptable by the scientific community. Unfortunately without a unified field theory, study of the non-mechanical nature of physical reality maybe difficult to impossible. Geneticists are working on how certain dna/rna sequences result in certain traits in an organism. Even though this is a study of life, it is a study of the mechanical part of it.
A lot of human behavior is a response to being driven by forces unknown to us. We experience sadness when we lack new experiences, when we have no goals to which to base our actions and thus we are bored. We are driven to create. So, we turn to drugs. We turn to hateful beliefs blaming others for our problems. We turn to elitist religion, professing they have the sole claim to truth without a shred of proof. We imagine ourselves superheroes via our movies. We kill ourselves. We just want to escape. It seems endless the attempt to satisfy this hunger. And the more intelligent you are, the greater this hunger consumes you. You are driven to create and to understand. We try nearly everything, no matter how insane, often in an attempt to alleviate some unseen hurt. People live in a state of constant inner flux, going from one desire to another, one goal to another, experiencing brief moments of satisfaction, but no lasting calm.
Some religious people have argued that Communism is atheism and a philosophy. Firstly all religions have some elements of philosophy in them. Communists were anti-Christianity, anti-Judaism, basically anti the various religions that had formally been in power in that country, mainly Christianity as that had been the religion that had the strongest grip on the country previously. The Russian Revolution of 1917 resulted in the imprisonment of the previous ruling family and they were later shot to death. The Soviet Union was a country of mandatory reading of Marxist and Leninist philosophy and massive brainwashing of its citizens was implemented at the educational level. Kids were encouraged to spy on their parents. People were killed for suspicions of going against Communist ideology. Marx, Lenin, and Stalin were worshipped almost like gods. It was government sponsored terrorism against its own citizens. Massive spending in military, and decreasing productive due to corruption and increased incentives to work hard resulted in the enviable collapse of the Soviet Union.
Communist socialism is religious hate speech in disguise. It divides people into groups and kills its dissenters. Communists have believed in ideas without proof with extreme fervor and devotion, creating groups and defining who is evil and who is not under the disguise of philosophy. Words are redefined and a younger generation believes in a rewritten history. To accept what one is told without proof and without reason is to not engage in philosophy. Communist advocate the party line with striking parallels to Christian, Jewish and Muslim theories. Party ideology is forced on a desperate people hungry for change, for food, for advancement. The whole society revolves around one book, written by a man, and everyone is forced to live by that. If that is not religion, then I do not know what is. The Little Red Book by Mao Zedong of the People's Republic of China, during 1964-1976, is the most printed book in the twentieth century at around 6.5 billion copies, rivaling even the Bible.
We believe we know, but we don't. Knowing is not impossible but we have yet to attain clarity on the simplest of things. People live in fear of uncertainty. In uncertainty one feels powerless. So we pretend to know so that others may fear us. We advertise our dangerousness so that we may feel safe. Reality is we are powerless and death can come at any time. Before we as a people can arrive at any form of truth we must first be honest with ourselves and admit we know very little and assume things to be true that we have not seen. Both religion and science and philosophy seek to provide answers when often there currently aren't any valid ones available.
Even in science there is a certain degree of faith. Logical arguments aren't always right as they are often built on hidden assumptions they aren't true. And currently science holds onto quite a few incorrect beliefs, but most don't even realize it. People who read about science or even practice it often confuse the interpretation of reality with the actual observation of reality. Scientists often think the interpretation of reality is an observation of reality when it is not. Quarks do not exist. They are a mathematical model with no basis in reality. Multiverse theory is an inference from the uncertainty principle, which is itself a misinterpretation of reality. Uncertainty happens because at the level of individual particle we are dealing with both the quantized nature of matter and the wavelength/frequency nature of matter. Plus the point of contact of two particles can effect where the forces are applied, making measurement a difficult proposition because we are unable to measure without effecting the particle. At least science makes an effort to base their beliefs on observation.
Religious beliefs are notorious for not basing their beliefs on observation, but on personal preference. Despite whether people want to accept it or not, the brain operates via belief. And we act in accordance with our beliefs. Rational as we may try to be, we believe in something. Any sane person would try and match their beliefs to reality as close as possible, whether that reality be physical or something not physical in nature. All humans share the same physical reality and being of similar construction share a very similar human experience or at least the capacity to share a very similar human experience.
Morals are a type of belief, which seeks to label certain behaviors as either right or wrong, which are usually an imitation of behaviors that are deigned acceptable by a particular society/group and an avoidance of those which are not. Since we are talking about behavior in the physical world, morals are a product of the brain. Even if you read the bible and decide to have certain morals because of what you read in the bible does not mean your morality came from the bible. It still came from the brain. A different person reading the bible, still believing it to be true can come up with a different set of morals based on what they read.
The brain has 4 higher functions. The first is to experience/observe the world via the 5 senses and the nervous system. The second is to remember the world, i.e. reflect what we have experienced. The third is to understand the world (pattern finding, drawing conclusions, forming beliefs) done via imagination, emotion, reasoning, or just pure acceptance of an authority. The fourth is to act on our understandings/beliefs. Most people base their beliefs purely on the acceptance of some authority. Sometimes belief is also understood in the narrower sense of a belief based purely on an authority, i.e. without imagination, emotion or reasoning. Most science is done first via observation. Then by remembering. Then they use imagination or reason to come to conclusions. Then they act according to their conclusions. They then try and test their conclusions by further observation and a repeat of the process, strengthening the probability that what they believe is actually true. Real science is a recursive process of further refining our beliefs via continued tests.
As a disclaimer, since these are just ramblings, try not to make too much out of what is written. To be clearer, I am not arguing that a supernatural reality exist just because I have made arguments sortof related to that. However nor am I saying that there isn't a supernatural reality. I am unsure either way. Also since I have wrote it, then added to it after I wrote it, some sentences that were near each other got split apart from each other. Basically don't assume you know what I believe based on what I wrote as for one, unfortunately due to the imprecise nature of language, I may end up saying things that I did not intend to say. Feel free to ask questions if you are unsure about anything I have wrote. As this is just a blog, you pay for what you get.
Another random prophecy: In the future an increasing number of educated, developed countries will create some type of anti-blashempy law due to increased religious violence in the world. Also the chance of a nuclear bomb being denoted by one of the middle east countries(Israel, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon,etc.) will increase drastically.
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