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To: Alamo-Girl
LOL. If I rested any more, I'd be comatose. I hve nothing agains spirit. It's just that I think there is no difference between matter and spirit, nor do I accept any ultimate limitations on what is accessible to study.

One of the formative moments of my life came 40 years ago when a high-school teacher asserted that science would encounter a brick wall within 20 years, having discovered everything about the physical world that could be discovered.

I don't know if he meant that literally, but his point was that the really important stuff was spiritual. He may be right about that, but deeply wrong about materialism. There is never going to be an ultimate understanding of the material world, because even if we discover some ultimate algorithm from which all physical laws can be derived, we still know nothing about what is possible. Even if we learn the ultimate equation, it will only explain what is, not what can be.

4,357 posted on 01/10/2003 8:59:41 AM PST by js1138 (What does LBB stand for?)
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To: js1138
Thank you so much for your post!

If I rested any more, I'd be comatose.

Perhaps, your mental resting is the reason you are able to perceive things which escape the materialists? Truly, I believe the "noise" of everyday life is deafening.

I do not accept limitations on science either (please see the above post 4365.) Phaedrus, betty boop and I are agreeing with Penrose, Wolfram and Walker that a new kind of science is needed.

4,368 posted on 01/10/2003 9:30:27 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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