RE: Nondualism vs Dualism
May 6, 2019 at 6:33 pm
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2019 at 6:35 pm by Jehanne.)
(May 6, 2019 at 8:58 am)Simon Moon Wrote:(May 2, 2019 at 2:37 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I never claimed that. What I have claimed is that a scientific understanding of the Universe is based upon the Conservation Laws. If a single instance of a macroscopic violation can be repeatedly replicated under controlled conditions, such is proof, for me at least, of something non-physical in the Cosmos. Call such an entity what you will; I would call such a being "God".
Do you have a verifiable example of a "single instance of a macroscopic violation can be repeatedly replicated under controlled conditions"?
If there were, I believe it would be pretty newsworthy. Maybe even Noble worthy.
Quote:By the way, I think that AC Clarke was wrong. Any advanced civilization would still be subject to the Conservation Laws. Faster-than-light travel is a physical impossibility, no matter how "advanced" a civilization might be.
I believe you may be misinterpreting Clarke's famous quote here. There is nothing in his quote concerning advanced civilizations being subject to the laws of the universe, yet still being perceived as magic to less advanced civilizations.
A.C. was not a scientist, but he was a futurist. IMO, any civilization a billion years ahead of us would still have computers that were at most several times faster than we what got. Moore's Law is dead, and quantum computing is a pipe dream, kind of like renewable nuclear fusion.