the existence of the soul, life?

Discover the progress of scientists in solving the toughest scientific problems in human history in the past 10 years.

Can people create life?

So far, people have yet to know how life originated on Earth or even if it originated from another act and was brought to Earth by a comet. At the present time, people have understood the essential component of life as well as the molecular structure of organisms they form, and people also know that these structures have formed such a whole. Come on. However, how life is created, people still cannot answer.

The breakthrough in creating life from synthetic chemicals was recorded in May last year when famous geneticist J. Craig Venter and his colleagues claimed they created artificial living cells. .

This form of artificial life is called ' synthesis ' (Synthia). Because it requires the mechanism of the rest of a cell that has existed in nature before, scientists have returned to the original starting line.

' Venter does not create life, ' said Arthur Caplan, a biological theorist at the University of Pennsylvania. ' However, his research shows that an artificial genome can provide dynamics. It is an important step towards approaching the goal of creating life . '

Does the soul exist?

Advances in the creation of artificial life make it possible to define the existence of an individual only through a single method that is capable of thinking. This as an inevitable consequence will lead to a problem that has been debated for thousands of years, is whether or not the existence of the soul and we define the soul? A project on neuroscience is underway to address this conundrum.

The author of the Principles of Neurotheology, Andrew Newberg and his colleagues are studying images of the brains of monks in Tibet, Buddhist nuns and Christian followers.

Ten years ago, Newberg conducted brain research of more than 130 people. Now, he and his colleagues will continue to extensively study the structural network of the brain of people involved in religion and other mental states.

Newberg said that if the brain was found to work for religion, neuroscience would be able to answer the relationship between the brain and the body and the activity of the soul.

In addition, some scientists intend to analyze the creation of souls and consciousness through quantum mechanics. According to traditional theory, the structure of consciousness is formed based on classical physics theory, that is, the formation of human thinking is made up of a system of billions of neurons.

Stuart Hameroff, director of the University of Arizona's Center for Consciousness Research, said: ' Most people think that consciousness arises from the combination of neurons in the brain .' However, Roger Penrose and Hameroff came up with a new theory of consciousness, ie Reasoning Orchestra OR. The quantum consciousness theory gives the structure of small cells an important function, which is microtubules.

These microbes will form ' frames ' for the inside of our cells. This argument suggests that human consciousness also depends on quantum calculations of the ' microbes ' inside neurons.

Does there exist extraterrestrial life?

Many astronomers have declared that, outside of the Earth there is definitely life. However, if asked, when can people detect aliens, they all answer that, very little ability. But the recent findings are gathering hope to find alien life.

From a probabilistic point of view, if we find more stars, the more planets are, the greater the viability of alien life .

At the end of 2010, the researchers found that the number of stars in the universe was many times more than previous calculations. Stars that look dark and have smaller masses of red dwarfs are not the right place to form life, however, they can become the main stars of action. Crystal essential for residence.

The discovery of the Red dwarf Gliese 581 has made astronomers extremely happy. In April last year, astronomers claimed, they discovered the sixth planet of this star system. This planet with the symbol Gliese 581 g is considered to be the first planet suitable for life outside the solar system.

Gliese 581 g has 3-4 times higher mass than Earth, radius is about 1.2 - 1.5 Earth. If it is possible to prove that the planet is a lava planet, then this is likely to be a suitable planet for residence.

Not long ago, the US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released a controversial discovery, a bacterium named GFAJ-1 that could grow in arsenic (arsenic). , it can even be introduced into their DNA structure, while arsenic for most organisms is extremely toxic. This finding has caused intense controversy because it was previously hard to imagine that life could be so diverse. Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer in the Alien Intelligence Search Project (SETI), said: ' No matter where you live, life still finds something to do .'