Becoming human

Becoming Human

In 1901, Duncan MacDougall weighed six patients while they were in the process of dying from tuberculosis in an old age home. It was relatively easy to determine when death was only a few hours away, and at this point the entire bed was placed on an industrial sized scale which was apparently sensitive to the gram. He took his results (a varying amount of perceived mass loss in most of the six cases) to support his hypothesis that the soul had mass, and when the soul departed the body, so did this mass. The determination of the soul weighing 21 grams was based on the average loss of mass in the six patients within moments after death. The hypothesis was made that a soul portal formed upon death which then whisked the soul away.

Since 1901, we've come to realize there is no scientifically verifiable data that the soul or a soul exists, or that it weighs on average 21 grams. Is a soul required to be human? Is our dying breath the release of that consciousness? Is the soul merely a beating heart in a body and now that science has been able to grow hearts in labs have we created such a soul or merely an organ to distribute oxygen in our blood to other areas of our bodies? The body is merely a series of various elements all which can be found on the cheap and abundantly enough around the Earth. Can we create one, a soul? And if one is required for life, can we bestow one on an inanimate object? An android perhaps? A computer? A ghost in a machine, or does one obtain a soul over time, until it materializes within us? Are we magically granted one when we are conceived or can be brought down to a scientific level.

I'm very interested in what makes life, live. It seems like we've come very far in being able to manipulate life, pair up proteins and other elements to make simple viruses and bacteria, be can we create it? Can we create humans or is it more complicate that that? I'm an atheist and I trust in reality, what is scientifically here and now, but I do wonder sometimes if we're on the edge of discovery of some of the biggest questions in life or if it will be infinitely and ultimately beyond our reach?

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-Sissorelle

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