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October 17th, 2012, 3:13 pm
A way to cope with the size of the universe is to consider that virtually all of the mass of the visible universe is distributed in three major scales: atomic, stellar, and galactic. The self-similar cosmological paradigm described earlier offers evidence of the universal fractal self-similarity thr...
October 12th, 2012, 3:22 pm
Nameless 1995 wrote: What if we are created by microscopic particles which are actually clusters of microscopic galaxies where people like us lives and our universe combines with others creating more people like us. This process goes on and on till infinity. But that is just pure assumption. ~~~~~~~...
October 12th, 2012, 12:34 pm
-- Updated Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:34 am to add the following -- -- Updated Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:34 am to add the following -- To: Steve3007 To understand purpose of the whole one must reflect on the overall order of the whole process which is an emergent property of 'creation.' As in my thrice repeated ...
October 1st, 2012, 12:15 pm
Why Evolution and where does it lead? As science explored the order of different levels of system complexity it discovered the hierarchic relationship of Reductionism in which laws of physics supported laws of chemistry and both supported biological organization which resulted in the transcendence o...
September 30th, 2012, 12:05 pm
Hi Xris, I think the Big Bang is pursued by science as a model simply on the basis that it ‘justifies’ exploration of indefinitely high levels of energy (supporting generations of physicists) on the assumption that it will ultimately ‘reveal/define’ deeper laws of quantum physics. The materialist vi...
September 29th, 2012, 2:32 pm
Dear Godless End, What is new in quantum physics is insight which demonstrates that there is a very real realm of nonlocal information that is effective independent of time and space. Where the brain translates sensory experience into memory, NDEs seem to indicate that the memory from birth onward i...
September 28th, 2012, 6:12 pm
Hi Logicus; “Contrived” refers to the emergent physical reality revealed and largely but not completely described by science in that it appears to have been emergent (Big Bang) from a deeper fundamentally subjective origin (lacking time or space). Science has yet to define how this happened. Emergen...
September 28th, 2012, 5:41 pm
Poster he or I wrote: Joe, Your post resonates with a good deal of my own beliefs, however your use of the word "subjective" in each instance is confusing me. Essentially I keep asking myself, WHOSE subjectivity? (given that all identifying criteria must necessarily be properties of the em...
September 27th, 2012, 4:01 pm
What does the Big Bang imply if not the emergence of the physical including time and space out of ‘no thing’? If time, space, and matter are ‘emergent’ they cannot be fundamental. So, what IS fundamental? My existence is by no means the only reality. The deeper reality is that our awareness, our con...
September 27th, 2012, 12:17 pm
A further refutation of the Multiverse theory seems implicit in the "Self-Similar Cosmological Paradigm (SSCP) by Robert L. Oldershaw, at http://www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw/Main Concepts. It seems that virtually all of the mass of the universe is concentrted at three major scales: atomic, stel...
May 21st, 2012, 11:45 am
Hi Scott, Re your #16 of May 20
I guess I cannot ignore my belief that body and spirit merge at conception, implying that the process has a subtlety that the objectivity of science will never define/replicate.
Joe
I guess I cannot ignore my belief that body and spirit merge at conception, implying that the process has a subtlety that the objectivity of science will never define/replicate.
Joe
May 20th, 2012, 1:12 am
I expect I would die with the original body. The replica would fill in the social role, in theory. I share memories with close friends but never have the feeling of identity with them. Zombie? How could the replica be a zombie, having a full set of memories, etc.? But does the body generate or attac...
May 19th, 2012, 10:09 pm
I'd be more inclined to argue that such transport can never take place.
Joe
Joe
May 19th, 2012, 5:25 pm
Hi Scott, Re your Post-1. 5/9/12 TE-1 Teleportation Device I would be concerned whether the sense of self would survive the transport. A witness at the new location might not be able to tell the difference, but it is not clear to me whether the original sense of self would exist in the new location....
May 19th, 2012, 3:13 pm
Hi Scott, On the general topic and related questions, it would seem that new and most relevant sources of observational data are becoming increasingly available; namely near-death experiences (NDE) suggesting that consciousness transcends the physical. (See “Consciousness Beyond Life, the Science of...
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