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It looks like scientific American is throwing in the towel.
This nothing new but the doors of denial have been closing off to the deniers for over 3 decades.
It looks like scientific American is throwing in the towel.
This nothing new but the doors of denial have been closing off to the deniers for over 3 decades.
well, of course the brain uses what it experiences to make predictions. I use the word "red", when I see the color red. I think of the "r" sound in red when i identify it. It makes perfect sense that the language portion of the brain is processing information. The connections are so vast that many areas of the brain help in dissipating thoughts.
as far as "materialism". all to often phylisopkers get to dismiss the claim that we kind of stick to what we know in describing things we don't know. I think philosopher's dump "knownism" and get to make up stuff at will sometimes.
Someone like the erudite Matadora or the ist class brain of Mordant or the brilliance of Shirina should deal with this, so until they turn up, let me shove my finger or something in the crumbling dyke of materialist secularism.
Ever since quantum hit the fan, (denied by Einstein because of the fading bits of God -belief he had), we have had the God -believers clamouring at us to accept that everything we know about science is wrong, thus creating a much -needed gap for God, because by Jimminy Christopher Columbus they ain't got many left. Ignoring that this was what science had discovered, and had NOT been revealed to us by God, presumably because it doesn't put bums on church seats.
But in fact I am aware (even if science is not and they probably are) that all of nature is an illusion created by human perception of the atoms (which are made of nothing just about) forming complex patterns and reflecting light particles which we Interpret mentally in terms of shape and colour and the atoms of our hand meet resistance when they meet atoms of brick and so we get a sensory input signal from the area of crushed bone and lacerated skin where our Karate lessons didn't go too well and are presented by the experienser -function of the brain as pain -Qualia and the brain responds accordingly.
As Einstein said, reality is an illusion, but it is a very convincing one. Materialism ain't dead. In fact it is on steroids.
Thus is is pretty much taken in their stride by Physicissts, Secular Materialiists and atheistic members of Satanic Darwinism when it is suggested that the whole of reality could be a hologram projected from beyond the Cosmos. So long as it is a reliably repeatable holographic illusion, we are cool with it.
So essentially all this quantum -woo stuff is not going to send us mentally skittering to Godfaith is desperation to have something "Solid" to cling to, even if it is a straw, which is probably not there anyway.
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Someone like the erudite Matadora or the ist class brain of Mordant or the brilliance of Shirina should deal with this, so until they turn up, let me shove my finger or something in the crumbling dyke of materialist secularism.
Ever since quantum hit the fan, (denied by Einstein because of the fading bits of God -belief he had), we have had the God -believers clamouring at us to accept that everything we know about science is wrong, thus creating a much -needed gap for God, because by Jimminy Christopher Columbus they ain't got many left. Ignoring that this was what science had discovered, and had NOT been revealed to us by God, presumably because it doesn't put bums on church seats.
But in fact I am aware (even if science is not and they probably are) that all of nature is an illusion created by human perception of the atoms (which are made of nothing just about) forming complex patterns and reflecting light particles which we Interpret mentally in terms of shape and colour and the atoms of our hand meet resistance when they meet atoms of brick and so we get a sensory input signal from the area of crushed bone and lacerated skin where our Karate lessons didn't go too well and are presented by the experienser -function of the brain as pain -Qualia and the brain responds accordingly.
As Einstein said, reality is an illusion, but it is a very convincing one. Materialism ain't dead. In fact it is on steroids.
Thus is is pretty much taken in their stride by Physicissts, Secular Materialiists and atheistic members of Satanic Darwinism when it is suggested that the whole of reality could be a hologram projected from beyond the Cosmos. So long as it is a reliably repeatable holographic illusion, we are cool with it.
So essentially all this quantum -woo stuff is not going to send us mentally skittering to Godfaith is desperation to have something "Solid" to cling to, even if it is a straw, which is probably not there anyway.
Depends, it does reduce the atheist God.
I know many who assume math is the solid bedrock of logic, they haven't stumbled across godel yet.
I think the magazine is priming its atheist readers for the uncomfortable facts that can no longer be evaded.
It looks like scientific American is throwing in the towel.
This nothing new but the doors of denial have been closing off to the deniers for over 3 decades.
I didn’t see anything in that article that suggested evidence for the supernatural. Did anyone else?
I saw some interesting philosophical discussion related to recent discoveries in quantum mechanics.
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Materialism dead ?
