Posted on 05/01/2017 9:06:53 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus
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A scientific swamp
Then, too, in the last few decades there has been considerable discussion of a basic paradox in the construction of the universe. Why are the laws of physics exactly balanced for animal life to exist? There are over 200 physical parameters within the solar system and universe so exact that it strains credulity to propose that they are random — even if that is exactly what standard contemporary physics baldly suggests. These fundamental constants of the universe — constants that are not predicted by any theory — all seem to be carefully chosen, often with great precision, to allow for existence of life and consciousness (yes, consciousness raises its annoying head yet another time).
We have absolutely no reasonable explanation for this. When it comes right down to it, today’s science is amazingly good at figuring out how the parts work. What eludes us is the big picture. We provide interim answers, we create exquisite new technologies from our ever-expanding knowledge of physical processes. We do badly in just one area, which unfortunately encompasses all the bottom-line issues: What is the nature of this thing we call reality, the universe as a whole?
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Consciousness is not just an issue for biologists; it’s a problem for physics. There is nothing in modern physics that explains how a group of molecules in a brain creates consciousness. The beauty of a sunset, the taste of a delicious meal, these are all mysteries to science — which can sometimes pin down where in the brain the sensations arise, but not how and why there is any subjective personal experience to begin with. And, what’s worse, nothing in science can explain how consciousness arose from matter. Our understanding of this most basic phenomenon is virtually nil. Interestingly, most models of physics do not even recognize this as a problem.
And it never will, because spirit (consciousness) did not arise from matter - matter arose from spirit.
You may animate a body, but you yourself, are pure spirit.
Before we had bodies, we were souls. When we die our souls return from whence we came. We are souls. We are self aware. Our bodies are simply the costume we wear while we are in this life.
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Einstein himself supported many quantum ideas.
Many scientists argue that matter is compressed energy. What if energy is compressed consciousness?
It’s not that matter comes from energy. It’s that it all comes from consciousness.
I have to agree with you here. I’ve often said that it takes more than a single sample to form a statistical basis. However, I’ve also heard others say that there may be other forms of life in the universe besides carbon-based ones like ourselves. I have to take issue with that as well. The physics are fine-tuned enough for our form of life as it is. I don’t believe other forms of life may even be possible in this universe besides hydrocarbon based ones. Silicon, maybe. But carbon chains are more stable under a greater range of temperatures than silicon ones. If there is a competition, carbon would win.
I read the first article, which took a good long while, and was focused on one of the points he made at the end of the article.
4. Practice and realize the power of intentions.
That is a great part of the Gospel, it does not matter whether we succeed or fail in a certain action, it is the idea of what our intent was, i.e. the Sermon on the Mount. God already knows the end, since the end and the beginning are all the same to Him, what matters is what our intent in our life was.
If our intent was to glorify ourselves, then we get whatever reward we want in this life. We get the “observer effect.” for our particular action. If we act for His glory, outside of ourselves, then we get what He wanted from the action and the fulfillment of His plan.
I will need to spend some time meditating and praying on this, but I can see some immense possibilities in Amit’s explanation. He is still a liberal hack; see the paragraph starting with “The materialist view has dominated science” for the proof, but i will take what I can from his writings.
You could very well be right. But it seems to me that until we can say, “look—of the 30 different non-terrestrial lifeforms we have found so far, they were all like us and required the same parameters we do” it is just theorizing with an example of exactly one. Of course that necessarily doesn’t make it untrue either. Heck, we aren’t really sure if the same rules of physics apply the same way in all areas of the universe.
Freegards
That is the best answer.
Matter arose from spirit.
And the Word became flesh.
Einstein himself supported many quantum ideas.
Many scientists argue that matter is compressed energy. What if energy is compressed consciousness?
It’s not that matter comes from energy. It’s that it all comes from consciousness.
Einstein coined the term quanta and was the originator of the idea quanta of information packets “In 1900, he proposed that light and other electromagnetic waves were emitted in discrete packets of energy, which he called “quanta”, which can only take on certain discrete values (multiples of a certain constant, which now bears the name the “Planck constant”).”
Matter is simply energy as I showed previously with a simple rewrite of einsteins equation. This has also been proved in many experiments. And brings us to the concept that all particle are a vibrating string of energy, with different frequency vibrations giving different masses - string theory.
The real question now is that which you describe regarding the consciousness of the energy. 16For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
In the beginning was the “Word.”
A word is just a metaphor for a pattern of consciousness, a thought for example.
Remember John 1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
There are many levels of consciousness, with God being the highest and the largest. All things are merely God’s consciousness. Remember John 14 9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?
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18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
When man was made in “God’s image” you can further understand this in Matthew 13 when Jesus explained the parable of the “Tares in the wheat” to His disciples....
The earth is the field and mankind are the good seeds planter here to grow.
The irony is that one of the inherent characteristics of consciousness is “Light” and the more of it at the higher levels. God is Light.
The same concept that the Danish founder of atomic physics, Neals Bohr discovered that when an electron goes from an higher or outer orbital to a lower inner orbital it gives off light. I observe the same thing when I go to various higher levels of consciousness in prayerful meditation. (This is why artists show the light around the pictures of the saints.)
I feel other people’s thoughts as physical objects, each thought vibrating according to the frequency of the consciousness of the originator, just as you can distinguish different voices in a crowded room.
“The universe is probably 99.999999999999999999% lifeless at most. It took 3 billion years for intelligent life on earth to evolve. I couldn’t call that exactly balanced. And life as it is is a constant struggle for survival. If you could call a meat grinder exactly balanced for life, it’s a paradise by comparison.”
I find that to be a very good argument for the miracle that is life.
Whatever Dr. Goswami’s politics, his physics and metaphysics are strong.
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