Posted on 02/19/2015 2:23:41 PM PST by Reverend Saltine
Does Pi need the universe to exist? Can you imagine a mathematical expression so sophisticated that it’s actually sentient?
[ Does Pi need the universe to exist? Can you imagine a mathematical expression so sophisticated that it’s actually sentient? ]
If God is everywhere, does it mean that God is the universe itself and thus is one of the underpinnings of everything much like or is the sentient equation?
Posted recently somewhere on this site:
“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed science, the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”
Max Planck (1858-1947) Father of Quantum Physics
Thanks for reposting that. I read it last week and couldn’t find it again.
How about the simple idea that God’s world—the spirit world—is apart from and normally inaccessible by the material world.
That’s cooL
Materialist Scientists - “Just give us one miracle and we will explain all the rest”
“Do atoms understand language?”
Language?...Ah, no.
The whole article is juvenile sophistry. It is obvious that consciousness is not an attribute of matter or indeed of any physical thing, and certainly not the “brain” per se.
If it were, then anesthesia would be impossible and consciousness would survive death, but not decay.
Consciousness is itself a process - and is an aggregation of thousands of processes, many of which take place in physical living cells and organs, but consciousness is not in any way physical or material. Of course there is the eternal philosophical “touching” problem that will be discussed without end (not by me), but this author is writing like a third grader when everyone around him is in graduate school.
“stacked up universes”
Sorry. Just one.
“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed science, the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”
Max Planck (1858-1947) Father of Quantum Physics
And the recent Higgs Boson discoveries are incomplete.
Imagine that.
G-d.
There are laws against that with heavy penalties.
Good article, thanks.
Time is a different expression in that realm, different from that of your body chemistry. Your assertion, indirectly, that consciousness does not survive when the body decays is founded upon nothing that would prove such. With that said, consciousness exists in a coordinate system because without time events do not occur and without space a thing does not exist. Consciousness does exist.
God is.
Here’s the deal from my search.
The conclusion of the “scientific” endeavor is to embrace uncertainty.
This leads you to Buddhism, and they are all for that. Secular humanism and moral relativism et al.
Just watch endless hours of Joseph Campbell as I have.
Fred Allen Wolfe has plenty to say as well.
Ultimately their logic fails, but for me, I needed to go through the process and play it out to end.
If consciousness is material, and evolution is true, then there is no such thing as “right or wrong”. They can’t escape this.
Pi is so two dimensional...all us 3D kids hate him.
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