RE: A Conscious Universe
January 29, 2015 at 5:35 am
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2015 at 5:38 am by bennyboy.)
(January 29, 2015 at 2:36 am)Alex K Wrote: Bullshit. You can easily demonstrate how much consciousness is inherent to matter itself by hitting your head with a rubber hammer, or taking something that only very subtly inhibits the communication of neurons - bang, consciousness is gone. It's in the workings of the neural network.Sounds like a pretty horrible experience to me.
I think you and the others are missing the point a little. All the things we consider physical reality work AS IDEAS. Saying that reality is idealistic is not to throw away science, or the Big Bang, or the joy of getting hit in the head with a hammer. It is to say that deep down under the hood, there is no reality to be found except for formulas, experiences, ideas, and relationships between them. There's no pot of gold at the end of the physics rainbow where we find the most fundamental "thing" of which other things are made.
Not true, you say? Okay, what shape is a photon, and how much volume does it occupy?
