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Title: What is the secret to life?
Post by: Rowan Padayachee on 12/05/2009 10:30:02: Rowan Padayachee asked the Naked Scientists:
What is the Secret to life ?
What do you think?
Title: What is the secret to life?
Post by: Don_1 on 12/05/2009 10:39:31: I'm not telling, it's a secret!
Title: What is the secret to life?
Post by: Karen W. on 12/05/2009 10:47:08: LOVE
Title: What is the secret to life?
Post by: Madidus_Scientia on 12/05/2009 22:05:28: 42
Title: What is the secret to life?
Post by: Make it Lady on 12/05/2009 23:25:56: Not to think too much about what life is all about and why we are here. If you do you spend too much time mooning about getting depressed instead of living life to the full. So basically, just get on with it.
Title: What is the secret to life?
Post by: DrN on 12/05/2009 23:40:35: 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything. Not the secret of life. Sorry. [;D]
Title: What is the secret to life?
Post by: DrN on 12/05/2009 23:47:04: Possibly along a similar vein, I was wondering about souls while I was going home on the tube the other day, and how, without fail, every single person born in the world seems to have a soul.

Although, I wouldn't know what a soul-less person looked like, or acted like. Would they have no personality? No ability to reason? No emotion?

So, where does the soul come from? Maybe it's not 'supernatural' at all, and is part of the chemical make-up of all beings. Assuming soul-less people cannot exist, I can see no other logical explanation.
Title: What is the secret to life?
Post by: JimBob on 13/05/2009 05:39:46: I am sorry, but I am not self-aware.

Can't you tell.
Title: What is the secret to life?
Post by: JnA on 13/05/2009 06:33:48: Quote from: fishytails on 12/05/2009 23:47:04
and how, without fail, every single person born in the world seems to have a soul.

Although, I wouldn't know what a soul-less person looked like, or acted like. Would they have no personality? No ability to reason? No emotion?

....

Assuming soul-less people cannot exist

There might be some people in correctional services that would disagree.

"Demand me nothing. What you know, you know.
From this time forth I never will speak word."
Iago....

... often considered to be amoral.
Title: What is the secret to life?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 13/05/2009 07:07:14: Can you help me solve Hilbert's sixteenth problem?
When you get an answer I'll tell you the secret. [:)]
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Post by: dentstudent on 13/05/2009 09:14:47: Quote from: fishytails on 12/05/2009 23:47:04
So, where does the soul come from? Maybe it's not 'supernatural' at all, and is part of the chemical make-up of all beings. Assuming soul-less people cannot exist, I can see no other logical explanation.

Isn't this verging on the unstated major premise that souls actually exist? I don't think that they do - it is merely a human interpretation and compartmentalisation of an individual's character traits that by consensus, people have decided to call "soul" (in English, at least).
Title: What is the secret to life?
Post by: Andrew K Fletcher on 14/05/2009 09:26:36: Gravity!
Title: What is the secret to life?
Post by: Terry Richards on 14/05/2009 10:54:18: Beer!