tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post7840962095779654940..comments2024-03-28T14:16:42.371+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: A meaning for life - what are the pre-requisites? Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-24110288006119185272016-02-11T21:41:33.625+00:002016-02-11T21:41:33.625+00:00More on this at:
http://www.jrganymede.com/2016/0...More on this at:<br /><br />http://www.jrganymede.com/2016/02/11/life-has-meaning-therefore/#comments<br />Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-9277195761831169792016-02-10T21:48:05.665+00:002016-02-10T21:48:05.665+00:00Very good. I agree wholeheartedly.
http://www.jr...Very good. I agree wholeheartedly.<br /><br />http://www.jrganymede.com/2014/12/05/how-can-anything-be-meaningful/Adam G.http://www.jrganymede.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-88666148288219654022016-02-10T17:31:03.227+00:002016-02-10T17:31:03.227+00:00Assuming that information can never be lost, If th...Assuming that information can never be lost, If the information that is our lives is ‘out there’, is it stored as a whole, or is it created in a linear sequence (time bound)? If it is time bound and linear, then perhaps the information is simply a record of what has been. This might be enough in terms of what God needs to make a judgement of our actions and behaviour, whilst alive in the projected image. However, if the image is time bound, then does it not follow that it is material, and subject to corruption, like a degraded recording? A 2D reality of information that is outside of time would resolve the problem or corrupted information. It would remain pristine forever. But it brings another problem – surely a timeless 2D set of information would need to exist in its entirety. This brings in the age old question of free will and pre-determination that philosophy and religion have been arguing for millennia. I don’t want to argue that point here, but simply say that if these thoughts have entered my very ordinary brain, they must have entered the brains of proper scientists.<br /><br />Most of science is populated by careerists and mediocrities, just like all other walks of life. However, there are the golden boys and girls out there still. Those people can make a difference in an atheistic world if anyone is going to. When an Archbishop of Canterbury confesses to the world that he has doubts, it seems to me that he should resign on the spot, not carry on dishing out bland messages like liquid lard to a world that isn’t listening. He certainly is not the man to initiate a mass Christian revival. <br /><br />The scientist who says loudly, and publicly, that scientific theory, and divine interpretations of creation may not be so far apart, and outlines why, is much more likely to awaken at least the feeling for the divine in the mass of people than the princes of the Church.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-31893283857165081042016-02-10T17:30:21.482+00:002016-02-10T17:30:21.482+00:00I’m going to speculate here to demonstrate what I ...I’m going to speculate here to demonstrate what I might the case – that scientists (proper ones, and therefore the most influential) may be moving towards belief in the divine, albeit clumsily. “Clumsily”, because they have been trained from an early age to distrust intuition, calling it mere imagination, and, therefore, not real (as if a brilliant imagination were not necessary for the best science). Reason is their thing. Great, I am all for reason, but not on its own. I agree with a friend of mine, who said,<br /><br />I stir my mind,<br />This barrel of tar,<br />With the paper spoon of reason.<br /><br />Why they distrust intuition, and leaps of faith I just don’t get. Surely, every theory is a leap of faith, with a basis in the combination of reason and intuition?<br /><br />Back to the main point of this post - science says no information can ever be lost, then this must apply to our every action - every breath - every thought. This seems to me to be in accord with the idea that God knows everything that we do and think. If I can make this connection, then so can brilliant scientists.<br /><br />Science is also theorising the holographic universe, where somewhere on the edge of the universe is a 2D information store, which projects the material universe into what appears to us to be a 3D material reality. The 2D store is supposed to be the real, and the 3D is the image, or the unreal and transitory. This projection, which is the material universe, comes from the information store.<br /><br />The image in my head is of a trip to the cinema as a child – I saw up above the motes of dust floating in the strong beam of light wide and faint where I sat, narrowing and strengthening the nearer it was to its source, the hole in the wall, behind which wall sat the projectionist. The light hit the screen, and suddenly there was a riot of colour and noise, and a story unfolded in real time. When the film ended, the camera, the film and the projectionist remained, behind the wall. I could not see them, but I knew that they were there. This is how I understand that the scientists see their holographic universe. This theory seems to me like,<br /><br />“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”<br /><br />Again, If I can see the obvious, so should brilliant scientists.<br /><br />Continued in next post<br /><br />Seeker<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-16712852493677380402016-02-10T15:42:33.433+00:002016-02-10T15:42:33.433+00:00In ancient times, didn’t the Jews believe in a sor...In ancient times, didn’t the Jews believe in a sort of corporate continuity/permanence despite not believing in individual permanence? Bruce B.noreply@blogger.com