Miscellaneous Thoughts Part 7

• Never read a book you cannot lift.
• I don't think gov't should endorse any new technology or research over any other because this is not fair to other technologies competing against that technology. Also, this will hurt the consumer in the long run by restricting choice. Let the free market decide what technology will survive.
• The main function of prisons is to keep the criminal element away from the law abiding citizens. If prisons rehabilitate criminals or deters crime that is fine, but that should not be the primary function of prisons.
• If you believe intelligence on other planets exist (I myself am agnostic about this) then you have to give the benefit of the doubt to the Loch Ness monster and Bigfoot. After all they just like extra-intelligence life have not been conclusively proven either way.
• The soul does not need to evolve because it is immortal. Only mortal life-forms need to evolve to survive.
• Gov't agencies (other than law enforcement and national security agencies) and gov't programs when they are created by Congress should have expiration dates like say three years. When their expiration date comes then they should be reviewed by Congress to see if they are needed anymore. Otherwise they are a waste of taxpayer's money.
• Unprovable theory is just philosophy.
• Ignorance is the mother of conspiracy theories.
• Nocturnal dreams are created because the brain always has to be working. Even in sensory deprivation chambers people hallucinated.
• In the end, either we will know that consciousness survives death or we will never know. If the mind or consciousness stops existing after physical death, then it cannot ultimately prove life after death. It's either all or nothing. I believe that the consciousness survives death.