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KellyPrettyBear
RP2SticksOfDynamite
Clap your hands, go to have a poop, scr.w your missis, get hit by a bus, drown!
And we are not physical beings! Just HP's. The theory is just that and without merit in my Im not an HP view!
We might not matter in the whole scheme of things (whatever we are or wherever we originated from but we are MATTER!
Matter .. energy.. more semantics than anything.. especially now
that the Higg's Boson has been found.. pull out that one particle
and the field responsible for it.. and the great majority of 'matter'
vanishes instantly.
I'd say that science is heading in directions that are far more 'crazy'
than anything I can write about.
The GUT
reply to post by dlbott
Science, with a big "S" is all about some materialism is it not? Evolution, matter, yada, yada...
tanka418
The GUT
reply to post by dlbott
Science, with a big "S" is all about some materialism is it not? Evolution, matter, yada, yada...
No! Actually science (or Science) is a set of procedures, protocols, methods for deriving truth.
It is only through these proven protocols that truth can be confirmed.
The GUT
I understand your point...and your confusion...however, physics is in disarray and no one has a model of the mind yet let alone "consciousness." Excuse me if I don't wait for moribund science to tell me what it doesn't know.
The GUT
tanka418
The GUT
reply to post by dlbott
Science, with a big "S" is all about some materialism is it not? Evolution, matter, yada, yada...
No! Actually science (or Science) is a set of procedures, protocols, methods for deriving truth.
It is only through these proven protocols that truth can be confirmed.
I understand your point...and your confusion...however, physics is in disarray and no one has a model of the mind yet let alone "consciousness." Excuse me if I don't wait for moribund science to tell me what it doesn't know.
tanka418
The GUT
I understand your point...and your confusion...however, physics is in disarray and no one has a model of the mind yet let alone "consciousness." Excuse me if I don't wait for moribund science to tell me what it doesn't know.
If you understood my point, then you should also know I have no "confusion" in this regard.
I am very aware of what science doesn't know; are you aware of how much it does?
Many things that most people "think" science doesn't know, science actually does. Most of what people "think" science is hiding; science isn't.
By the way; science will not likely ever "map" consciousness. In what way/manner is physics in disarray? I understand how it might seem that way, especially to a non-physicist.
JadeStar
And the idea of consciousness is a bit like the idea of the "missing link". We've moved on from both.
Consciousness is not a force, it is an act.
The subject belongs in philosophy rather than hard science anyway.