Philosophical Speculations

Allow me to be an annoyig devil's advocate for a bit; :) So, essentially, your're asking for scientists, who got famous for their purely scientific contriibution, and - in addition - are metaphysical idealists, but where this idealism in no way whatsoever has influenced their scientific contribution?

I'm going to be a bit anal here and ask for a clarification:
Do you mean Science or Physics?

Brad Walker wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 10:05 pm Decentralized, diverse ant colony behavior is more impressive.

Than what?

Cleric K wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:29 am There are old people who say "I don't know if there's God, I don't put my belief in him but I live morally as if there's a God".

Hey! I came up with that rule when I was 30 the most. How old are you if i may ask.

essentially, these 3 rules are enough to simulate this behaviour: Separation – Steer to avoid crowding others Alignment – Steer to maintain a direction similar to others Cohesion – Steer toward the average position of local flockmates Add some realistic flight dynamics to that and you're done. This ...

Not as cool, but i think you get the point:


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... I've seen how many people involved just seem to be looking for a way for spirituality to be viable rather than supporting idealism on its own empirical merit. You are referring to the ppl involved with Essentia, right? Please substantiate this. Clearly, having expressed some spiritual beliefs d...

Astra052 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 5:40 pm

Simon Adams wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:45 pm ...

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Umm. what happened to the thread? ("Re: Concern about the Essentia Foundation.")

Edit: ok. Shu, i see your post now. sry.

Idealism is resisted because people subconsciously feel that the far reaching consequences of it, leading to spiritual reality, threaten to destroy the sweet Maya that we hate and love so much at the same time. And here we should also be very vigilant of the wave of spiritualism that floods the wor...

@Astra. And yes. I get your point. Ppl listen a lot more to the ones in their own camp. A materalist atheist will listen a lot more to an idealist atheist than an idealist spiritualist. I agree with that.