Atheistic Dogma- Scientific Fundamentalism

[ShaMan]

Oh man I wish the conversation had commenced with this...

[sswhateverlove]

Oh man I wish the conversation had commenced with this...

If you're interested. Read this recently. I have to admit I'm lost trying to understand some of it (I'm not a physicist), but generally I found it very intriguing.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/pqdtopen/do...tml?FMT=AI

[SteelCurtain]

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I'm as sure about the existence of a "sky daddy" as I'm sure about the dylexic gay rhinoceros with Asperger's that may live in a field behind my house.

And while I'm sure there isn't an intelligent, purposeful designer (other than nature's blind workings), all it would take is a little bit of evidence for either proposition for some doubt and skepticism to creep in.

The wonderful thing about not thinking that I have all the answers already is that I can take an honest look at the evidence presented an make a provisional decision. If more evidence is presented that contradicts or adds to our common knowledge, then I'll amend the things I hold to be "true."

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Thank you SteelCurtain, can I ask what you think about the idea that I proposed? About reality as I proposed it and how it makes me question. It doesn't make you?

No. I see zero evidence, nor do I experience anything that would make me think life is some sort of video game that's already been played.

[sswhateverlove]

No. I see zero evidence, nor do I experience anything that would make me think life is some sort of video game that's already been played.

Can I ask if you looked at any of it? Have you considered the research and the potential implications?

[The Grand Nudger]

My assumption would be that if life operates in such a way that it is similar to something that (in it's simplest forms) intelligent life (humans) has created here, than "intelligence" (or consciousness, I tend to think of it) could be actively involved with the design and operations of life as we know it.

So, because we built an airplane, -someone- must have built an albatross, essentially?

[sswhateverlove]

My assumption would be that if life operates in such a way that it is similar to something that (in it's simplest forms) intelligent life (humans) has created here, than "intelligence" (or consciousness, I tend to think of it) could be actively involved with the design and operations of life as we know it.

So, because we built an airplane, -someone- must have built an albatross, essentially?

Well, it's more like the foundational principles of our reality could be similar to foundational principles of human simulated realities, wherefore our reality could be simulated. It's a bit different.

Interesting article that describes the details.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/pqdtopen/do...tml?FMT=AI

[Mudhammam]

So, because we built an airplane, -someone- must have built an albatross, essentially?

Just to be difficult, if I were to play devil's advocate, I might say: the same underlying physical processes are responsible for both, aren't they?

[sswhateverlove]

Just to be difficult, if I were to play devil's advocate, I might say: the same underlying physical processes are responsible for both, aren't they?

So, again, if you were to look at what I'm referring to you would see that neutral monism refers to the "view that the mental and the physical are two ways of organizing or describing the same elements, which are themselves "neutral", that is, neither physical nor mental. This view denies that the mental and the physical are two fundamentally different things. Rather, neutral monism claims the universe consists of only one kind of stuff, in the form of neutral elements that are in themselves neither mental nor physical; these neutral elements might have the properties of color and shape, just as we experience those properties, but these shaped and colored elements do not exist in a mind (considered as a substantial entity, whether dualistically or physicalistically); they exist on their own."

[SteelCurtain]

No. I see zero evidence, nor do I experience anything that would make me think life is some sort of video game that's already been played.

Can I ask if you looked at any of it? Have you considered the research and the potential implications?

I'll admit I haven't. Nor do I care to. It's not a testable or falsifiable hypothesis. It is merely a mildly interesting philosophical endeavor.

[sswhateverlove]

Can I ask if you looked at any of it? Have you considered the research and the potential implications?

I'll admit I haven't. Nor do I care to. It's not a testable or falsifiable hypothesis. It is merely a mildly interesting philosophical endeavor.

The information I am referring you to is describing critical inquiry into these areas and is detailing outcomes. Posts on the other threads I started also direct to areas of research with regard to these topics. If you are interested in responding to any of these threads, would you mind first reviewing the information I'm referring to?

Thank you.