Philosophical Speculations

@Jim
It saddens me that you quote the Reber / Alcock reply to Cardeña.

Their reply is one on the most unscientific pieces of popycock I've ever seen published in a respected journal.

Quantum mechnics?

What do you mean with truly random.

AshvinP wrote: ↑Sun Jul 18, 2021 6:30 pm
I hear you on that. I am still glued to the NBA finals and actually cannot wait until they are over and I am left with no worthwhile sports to watch. Then I get a break until (American) football season starts.

Ummmm. The Tokyo Summer Olympics?
Starts on Friday.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-many ... -20210715/

Especially the box "Forcing New Reals" makes my head hurt and makes me more sympathetic to Santeri's self-chosen plight.

Nature obviously exists within consciousness and consciousness is the creator. That would be the third option that I was hinting at in my original reply. Robert. I've been rereading your initial post, and I'm not sure i understand your "The Principle of Rigged Probability" Is it that thes...

Maybe We are God - in the process of building a universe - figuring out the details for what a life-supporting universe would have to look like.

Martin wrote: I'm sorry, but I thought it was exactly the passionate attempts of specific humans of working out the answers which led to the revealed wisdom in the Bible. That is what people commonly believe. But, given that the Bible was written in two languages over millennia, and yet has a consi...

I'm sorry, but I thought it was exactly the passionate attempts of specific humans of working out the answers which led to the revealed wisdom in the Bible.

Where does this assumption - that there are only 2 options; "random" or "apriori intentionally created" - come from?

Cue Anthropic principle, and how it applies to Idealism.