Totally OT: Quantum Mechanics proof for the existence of a Supreme Conciousness?

Yigal Chripun yigal100 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 14:46:13 PST 2008


Craig Black wrote:
> "Yigal Chripun" <yigal100 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:fp29k3$adk$1 at digitalmars.com...
>   
>> I haven't read the link but my view on such issues (as an atheist)  is
>> as follows:
>> science deals only with certain questions, namely ones he can find an
>> answer to, other questions are just left to philosophy.
>> from your description that links falls under the realm of the latter
>> more than the former.
>> the Schrödinger cat experiment for example is a way to illustrate
>> Heisenberg's uncertainty law. It's a way to explain statistics.
>> science uses math as a language to express concepts, for example we use
>> fields to explain magnetism but that does not mean that there's such a
>> thing as a magnetic field, cause a field is just another mathematical
>> entity, nothing more.
>> trying to extract any philosophical ideas out of those ideas and math
>> concepts is wrong as it violates Okham's razor principal and is not 
>> science.
>> As I've stated already, those are my views only, and I of course do not
>> want to insult anyone's beliefs. I just prefer the science continue
>> expanding our understanding of the universe while our philosophy
>> continues to debate other questions and those remain separated.
>>
>> --Yigal
>>
>> PS - 
>> http://digg.com/comedy/Atheist_Sees_Image_of_Big_Bang_in_Piece_of_Toast
>>     
>
> Yep.  That's generally a good approach to science.  However, considering how 
> much ground has been covered by science in recent times, I have the hope 
> that ultimately science will be able to answer philosophical questions too. 
> Being a curious person, it would be nice to have a definitive answer to the 
> big questions.
>
> -Craig 
>
>
>   
there are various proofs in math [for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems]
which place limitations one what science can do. thus hope is
irrelevant, and fact is that some questions simply has no scientific
answer.

--Yigal



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