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- Thu Jul 15, 2021 5:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Does the Anthropic Principle Explain Anything?
- Replies: 41
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Re: Does the Anthropic Principle Explain Anything?
BTW, have you ever seen Winding the Universal Clock Speculations on the Transitions Between Chaos and Order https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P8006.html In the dedications, there is a quote: “For all those scientists still willing to speculate broadly not in the certainty that they are correct but in...
- Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Does the Anthropic Principle Explain Anything?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3382
Re: Does the Anthropic Principle Explain Anything?
As it happens I've just been watching an interview with Chris Langan in which his take on the anthropic principle is discussed, and so I checked out his wiki, and found the following which may be of some interest here, since it also seems to make the case that 'designer' and design are not-two ... ...
- Thu Jul 15, 2021 2:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Does the Anthropic Principle Explain Anything?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3382
Re: Does the Anthropic Principle Explain Anything?
How is Design "outside" of nature, when before nature existed, there were no natural causes? So God is a part of nature? Maybe God is just anthropic principles themselves? The Design is the Designer? But there was no "before nature". Nature is bound to time. It is meaningless to...
- Thu Jul 15, 2021 12:02 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Does the Anthropic Principle Explain Anything?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3382
Re: Does the Anthropic Principle Explain Anything?
Yep. It's ridiculous so now you should see why the idea of God or Designer is even more ridiculous since it is outside of nature and closes off all questions.To say that ANYTHING in nature can "just exist" is to close off the metaphysical question.
- Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Does the Anthropic Principle Explain Anything?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3382
Re: Does the Anthropic Principle Explain Anything?
Jim wrote: I agree it [anthropic principle] doesn't explain anything but neither does intentional creation because you still need to explain the creator. If you think you can bypass doing that, then the same bypass could be done with anthropic principle , that is we could assume it is uncaused. Thi...
- Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain
- Replies: 5
- Views: 612
Re: Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain
This discussion reminds me of the Bohm-Pribram's holonomic brain theory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonomic_brain_theory Specifically about this part: "This model allows for important aspects of human consciousness, including the fast associative memory that allows for connections betwe...
- Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:39 pm
- Forum: House Rules, Announcements, Suggestions, & Resources.
- Topic: Technical Questions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8727
Re: Technical Questions
Regarding Chrome spellcheck one thing to look at is whether it has become disabled for some reason. If you right click in the reply box editing area, you should see an option that says "Spell check". If you click that, another menu should come up with options about language and whether you...
- Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain
- Replies: 5
- Views: 612
Re: Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain
Yet another annoying piece of evidence that does not fit into the physicalist narrative. From that point of view there is no reason why specialized neurons should "drift" towards other functions while subjected to the same stimulus. From the non-physicalist view which sees the brain as a ...
- Mon Jul 12, 2021 4:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Does the Anthropic Principle Explain Anything?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3382
Re: Does the Anthropic Principle Explain Anything?
I agree it doesn't explain anything but neither does intentional creation because you still need to explain the creator. If you think you can bypass doing that, then the same bypass could be done with anthropic principle, that is we could assume it is uncaused.
- Sun Jul 11, 2021 1:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain
- Replies: 5
- Views: 612
Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain
Schoonover, Fink, and their colleagues from Columbia University allowed mice to sniff the same odors over several days and weeks, and recorded the activity of neurons in the rodents’ piriform cortex—a brain region involved in identifying smells. At a given moment, each odor caused a distinctive gro...