I DO NOT CALL MYSELF AN AGNOSTIC, AS OPPOSED TO AN ATHEIST, OUT OF POLITENESS TO RELIGIOUS PEOPLE. I BELIEVE IN THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD--IF SOMETHING CAN'T BE PROVEN OR DISPROVEN, ONE KEEPS AN OPEN MIND. OF COURSE, WE HAVE NO ABSOLUTE PROOF, ONLY DEGREES OF POSSIBILITY.
THE CRUX IS THE DEFINITION OF "GOD'. OBVIOUSLY, SOMETHING IS GOING ON IN THIS EXISTENCE WE DON'T UNDERSTAND, BUT WHAT IT IS & HOW IT RELATES TO US IS UNKNOWN.
THE NOTIONS OF TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS OF "GOD" AS THE GREAT PARENT OR TRIBAL CHIEFTAN IN THE SKY IS PURE ANTHROPHORMOPISM.
WE GREW UP INDIVIDUALLY & AS HUMANITY WITH PARENTS & RULERS, & PROJECT THOSE EXPECTATIONS ON THE UNIVERSE--BUT A MYSTERY EXISTS.
SOME ACCEPT MATERIALISM, THAT CONSCIOUSNESSNESS COMES FROM CONNECTIONS IN BRAIN SYNAPSES, BUT MATTER, ACCORDING TO THE LATEST SCIENCE, IS NOT "REAL".
RICHARD FEYNMAN, THE FAMOUS PHYSICIST, SAYS ANYONE WHO EXPLAINS QUANTUM MECHANICS DOESN'T UNDERSTAND IT--BUT HERE GOES.
SUBATOMIC PARTICLES THAT MAKE UP WHAT WE CALL MATTER ARE BOTH PARTICLES & WAVES. THE SAME ENTITY CAN BE IN DIFFERENT PLACES DOING DIFFERENT THINGS AT THE SAME TIME, SO OUR NOTION OF TIME DOES NOT WORK.
THIS PROCESS IS CALLED SUPERPOSITIONING. SOME PHYSICISTS SAY THIS PARTICLE (WAVE) IS FUNCTIONING SIMULTANIOUSLY IN DIFFERENT UNIVERSES (MULTIVERSING).
THESE PARTICLE/WAVES CAN INFLUENCE EACH OTHER WITHOUT ANY DIRECT CONNECTION FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT, WHICH DEFIES NOTIONS FROM EINSTEIN’S’S. RELATIVITY. THIS PROCESS IS CALLED ENTANGLEMENT.
PARTICLES/WAVES CAN INFLUENCE EACH OTHER WITHOUT APPARENT CONNECTION. THE PARTICLE/WAVE THAT HAS REALITY BECAUSE WE OBSERVE IT DIRECTLY CONNECTS WITH ITS OTHER UNOBSERVED SELVES, SO THEY FUNCTION AS A UNIT.
QUANTUM MECHANICS FLIES IN THE FACE OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS & OUR COMMONSENSE VIEW OF THE WORLD, BUT IT IS NOT MERE THEORETICAL SCIENCE FICTION.
GOOGLE HAS A QUANTUM COMPUTER 158 MILLION TIMES FASTER THAN OUR FASTEST BINARY SUPER COMPUTERS.
IF YOU MAKE A PASSWORD OF AT LEAST 16 DIGETS WITH UPPER- & LOWER-CASE LETTERS, NUMBERS, & SYMBOLS, IT WILL TAKE CURRENT SUPERCOMPUTERS MORE THAN A TRILLION YEARS TO HACK IT. A QUANTUM COMPUTER LIKE GOOGLE’S CAN CRACK IT IN SECONDS.
BINARY IS BASED ON A SIMPLE SYSTEM OF 0 OR 1, OFF OR ON. IN QUANTUM COMPUTERS, IT CAN BE OFF & ON AT THE SAME TIME. QUANTUM COMPUTING NECESSITATES RETHINKING OUR CURRENT CYBER SECURITY
STRING THEORY SAYS THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IS MADE UP OF VIBRATIONS IN A MEME. SOME PHYSICISTS DISPUTE STRING THEORY, BUT THEIR NOTIONS ARE EVEN WEIRDER. MATTER & TIME DON'T REALLY EXIST OUTSIDE OF OUR VERY LIMITED "COMMON SENSE".
WE COME TO THE CONNECTION BETWEEN CONSCIOUSNESS & MATTER. FOR ONE THING WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS? IT IS NOT MATTER BUT IT EXISTS. DOES THE FUNCTIONING OF THE BRAIN CREATE CONSCIOUSNESS, OR DOES CONSCIOUSNESS MAKE THE BRAIN.
IN QUANTUM MECHANICS, NOTHING EXISTS WITHOUT CONSCIOUSNESS OF IT. WE COME TO SCHROEDINGERS CAT & HEISENBERG’S PRINCIPLE OF UNCERTAINTY.
A MATERIALISTIC OUTLOOK IS VERY SIMPLISTIC & DOESN'T REFLECT WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING, ACCORDING TO MODERN SCIENCE.
ALSO, WHAT'S THE DEFINITION OF "GOD" IN THE MIDST OF ALL THIS? HOW DOES OUR CONSCIOUSNESS DEFINE OUR EXISTENCE? WE ARE WISE TO GET BEYOND WISH FULFILLMENT & TRY TO SEE WHAT IS.
NAMES ARE NOT THNGS, BUT WISDOM IS CALLING THINGS BY THEIR RIGHT NAMES (CONCEPTS). NAMES PROVIDE DEFINITION WHICH PROVIDES MEANING. IN QUANTUM MECHANICS, OBSERVATION CAUSES REALITY
THE QUESTION OF "GOD" EXISTING OR NOT IS A MOOT & SHOULD BE MUTED POINT. WE CAN'T AGREE ON THE DEFINITION OF "GOD", SO WE ARE DISCUSSING AN UNDEFINED ABSTRACTON. WITHOUT DEFINITION, WE HAVE NO MEANING.
THE WORDS WE USE TO DESCRIBE "GOD" HAVE NO REAL BACKING. "INTELLIGENT UNIVERSAL BEING". INTELLIGENT IS ONLY DEFINED BY WHAT IT DOES. IT MIGHT BE SAID THE OPERATIONS OF THE UNIVERSE DISPLAY INTELLIGENCE, BUT TO PARAPHRASE THE TINA TURNER SONG, "WHAT'S GOD GOT TO DO WITH IT."
WE MIGHT GET INTO SPINOZAN-EINSTINIAN PANTHISM. GOD IS DEFINED AS THE SUM TOTAL OF THE LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE. BUT IF WE HAVE THE UNIVERSE, WHO NEEDS GOD.
UNIVERSAL MEANS CO-EXISTENT WITH THE UNIVERSE. THE UNIVERSE IS SAID TO BE "INFINITE", WHICH IS NOT SOMETHING VERY BIG BUT SOMETHING ENDLESS. IT FEEDS BACK INTO ITSELF, WHICH IS WHY THE SYMBOL IS A SIDEWAYS 8.
THE WEBB TELESCOPE IS CASTING SHADE ON THE BIG BANG THEORY, BUT IF BIG BANG IS CORRECT, THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THERE WAS NO UNIVERSE, SO THE UNIVERSE IS NOT INFINITE IN TIME & SPACE'.
I LIKE WHAT EINSTEIN SAID, "ONLY TWO THINGS ARE INFINITE--THE UNIVERSE & HUMAN STUPIDITY, & I'M NOT SO SURE ABOUT THE FORMER".
WHICH BRINGS US TO "BEING". BEING IMPLIES SOMETHING EXISTS--A PERSON, A DOG. BUT THERE IS NO PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PURE ABSTRACTION, AS FAR AS WE KNOW.
WE ARE TERRIFIED TO BE ALONE IN THIS FEARFUL EXISTENCE, SO WE MAKE UP AN IMAGIONARY FRIEND, OR RATHER RELIGION DOES IT FOR US.
WE EVOLVED IN GROUPS. IF AN INDIVIDUAL WAS ABANDONED, IT ALMOST CERTAINLY MEANT DEATH, SO WE HAD PARENTS TO PROTECT & GUIDE US.
WE LOOKED FOR TRIBAL CHIEFTANS OR KINGS WHO WE THOUGHT WERE STRONG ENOUGH TO PROTECT US, HOPEFULLY WITHOUT BEING TOO PREDATORY. WE PROJECT THIS NEED FOR A PROTECTIVE LEADER ON THE UNIVERSE--PURE ANTHROPHORMORPHISM.
WE WANT GOD TO ANSWER OUR PRAYERS & PROTECT US. 99% OF ALL THE SPECIES THAT EXISTED ARE EXTINCT. WE SAW MASSIVE HUMAN DESTRUCTION, SUCH AS THE 65 MILLION WHO DIED IN WWII. BUT MANY PEOPLE CLING TO THE BELIEF "GOD" CARES ABOUT THEM & WILL PROTECT THEM.
WE WANT JUSTICE, THE GREAT POLICEMAN IN THE SKY WHO WILL PUNISH EVILDOERS & PROTECT THE GOOD. BUT JUSTICE DOESN'T APPEAR TO EXIST IN HUMAN AFFAIRS.
WHEN WE GET TO THE QUANTUM LEVEL, EVENTS APPEAR RANDOM. THE SAME ON THE ASTROPHYSICAL LEVEL. SOME WEIRD STUFF HAPPENS. PERHAPS THINGS ARE NOT TRULY RANDOM.
STOCKASTIC. GENERAL PRINCIPLES MIGHT BE KNOWN, BUT NOT SPECIFIC EVENTS. CAR ACCIDENTS MAY APPEAR RANDOM, BUT IF ONE DRIVES RECKLESSLY, SPEEDS, DOESN'T OBEY RED LIGHTS, THEY ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT.
PERHAPS RANDOM MEANS WE DON'T UNDERSTAND. IF WE HAD A SUPER-DUPER DUPER QUANTUM COMPUTER, PERHAPS OUR VERY LIMITED HUMAN INTELLIGENCE COULD FIGURE OUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN EXISTENCE--OR PERHAPS IT COULDN'T. WE ARE WISE TO REALIZE OUR LIMITATIONS.
I HOPE THIS MATERIAL ILLUSTRATES WHY ALL TALK OF GOD EXISTING OR NOT EXISTING IS A WASTE OF BREATH. THINGS ARE MUCH MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT
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