RE: The Wonder of Reality
April 29, 2015 at 10:03 am
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2015 at 10:10 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Your inability to adequately communicate an experience(or series of experiences) which you found to be transformative is hardly a reason to conlcude "god" Riketto.
As to the "magic" of emergent properties mentioned by an earlier troll.....it's easy to understand why a person who sees magic in emergence would see magic -everywhere else-. Emergence is simply what happens when two component parts - for example, come together and in that combination express a property not possessed by either of the components themselves. Whether they are artifact, or simply happenstance, is irrellevent to whether or not they are emergent.
Two boulders pushed by ice, when interlocked at a narrow point in a stream - have the "emergent properties" of being a dam (as might a single log, as does a large pile of debris -of any kind-). I don't see a whole hell of alot of hocus pocus involved.....nor am I required to chisel the faces of the stone and lower them into place /w a crane......but I'm not the kind of guy that sees magic everywhere he looks, nor do I think that human beings are involved in every single interaction that goes down on this rock...so, maybe someone on the other end of the spectrum could fill me in?
(play a little of conways game of life..to understand how simple a concept emergence is, and maybe find your shame........)
As to the "magic" of emergent properties mentioned by an earlier troll.....it's easy to understand why a person who sees magic in emergence would see magic -everywhere else-. Emergence is simply what happens when two component parts - for example, come together and in that combination express a property not possessed by either of the components themselves. Whether they are artifact, or simply happenstance, is irrellevent to whether or not they are emergent.
Two boulders pushed by ice, when interlocked at a narrow point in a stream - have the "emergent properties" of being a dam (as might a single log, as does a large pile of debris -of any kind-). I don't see a whole hell of alot of hocus pocus involved.....nor am I required to chisel the faces of the stone and lower them into place /w a crane......but I'm not the kind of guy that sees magic everywhere he looks, nor do I think that human beings are involved in every single interaction that goes down on this rock...so, maybe someone on the other end of the spectrum could fill me in?
(play a little of conways game of life..to understand how simple a concept emergence is, and maybe find your shame........)
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