Scientists talk about human soul

[Rukh]

What if the souls that "go back into the cosmos" come back into life when a creature is born? are we eating our own reincarnated forms ?

Think of the posibilities, that bacon you are having might be someone you once knew >.>

That's why a certain varieties of hindus are vegan. They don't want to harm anything that could have been their great aunt.

But seriously this whole thing sounds like starting with belief in reanimation and then applying sciency phrases to it.

[Deleted]

Heisenberg's theory is not why fusion in our sun works.

It explains it. Tunneling is a consequence of the Uncertainty Principle.

[Pony Soldier]

Real or not, sounds awesome. I just get kinda confused when he talks about "microtubules" (however you pronounce that) and the whole "quantum" stuff.

[Sayl]

Not taking any sides here, because there is no evidence for either.

Sometimes though, there is no place for a classical model, because things can't be explained in a classical fashion. Like how a sun functions. You can't explain it without knowledge of quantum mechanics. In a classical model, a sun shouldn't even be possible. It's not hot enough to produce fusion. The principle of uncertainty makes the big ball of plasma work though.

Maybe conciousness falls into the same category. I'd like for that to be true, because it would make me feel even more connected to the rest of the universe, to all of existence even.

The difference here is that while early (classical) solar models were incomplete and couldn't account for the discrepancies between predictions and observations, the addition of quantum mechanics wasn't invoked as a means to bypass conventional solar modeling based on loose philosophical musings. It's possible that a viable explanation of consciousness might not be achieved within classical limitations, but it's not justifiable to invoke a quantum-god-of-the-gaps argument as a starting point as these authors have done.