RE: Nondualism vs Dualism
May 7, 2019 at 9:48 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2019 at 9:49 pm by Jehanne.)
(May 7, 2019 at 1:49 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(May 6, 2019 at 6:33 pm)Jehanne Wrote: 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.
I seem to recall how people around the end of the 19th century were predicting the end of science and things discoverable. You seem to be displaying hubris in place of actual fact and argument.
Apples & Oranges. As I am not a scientist, I cannot possibly be accused of any "hubris". Every scientist that I have ever read and/or heard is in agreement that some things are impossible, period. For instance, some chemical reactions are impossible, and so, things like the Pauli Exclusion Principle are not mere "hunches" or "feeling", but rather, the way Nature has come to be. (Reality would not exist otherwise.) Ditto for FTL ("Faster-than-light") travel and/or communication.
As for the 19th-century hubris on the part of some physicists, they were mostly right -- Newton & Maxwell have done a very good job of explaining much, if not most, of what goes on in our World.