tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5236639220165681993.post8379174220249426119..comments2023-07-25T01:32:51.796-07:00Comments on Beyond Evolution; Is There God After Dawkins?: DOES THE BRAIN GENERATE CONSCIOUSNESS?beyondevolutionistheregodafterdawkins.blogspotcomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625513549242420865noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5236639220165681993.post-45558259581624039832017-07-10T22:42:48.151-07:002017-07-10T22:42:48.151-07:00Bill,
" I mean, the notion that a thing can o...Bill,<br />" I mean, the notion that a thing can only achieve thingness if it is observed strikes me a little like Stephen hawking's assertion that the universe created itself because it needed to create itself. Riiiiiight." Please read my new post, Understanding the Quantum, The Wave/Particle Duality, and let me know what you think.<br />MattMatt Chaithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16016063540948394841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5236639220165681993.post-24083199044183442282017-03-28T17:39:30.153-07:002017-03-28T17:39:30.153-07:00Bill,
Thank you for that. I will respond to your ...Bill,<br />Thank you for that. I will respond to your comment either after I finish the run of my play, 'Disinherit The Wind' or in the lobby after the show when you decide to come to LA to see it.Matt Chaithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16016063540948394841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5236639220165681993.post-25378757105877682072017-03-28T17:05:52.299-07:002017-03-28T17:05:52.299-07:00Discussion of quantum theory always makes me nervo...Discussion of quantum theory always makes me nervous because I find it hard to distinguish between quantum mechanics and New Age gobbledygook. I mean, the notion that a thing can only achieve thingness if it is observed strikes me a little like Stephen hawking's assertion that the universe created itself because it needed to create itself. Riiiiiight. And then there is the notion that a second thing separate from the first thing can become the opposite of the first thing but only when we observe it...sounds to me a little like dividing by zero. Sure, you can do it, but is there any meaning in the answer? In the quantum world space and time don't exist...at least not that we can observe. This kind of 5thinking, as it usually does, leads to a number of counterintuitive suppositions. One goes something like this- for every decision made the universe splits to accommodate. I sort of like this one. I like to think in another universe I'm the mayor of Europe, there is a key on my calculator that will give me the square root of negative 1, I may divide by zero until the cows come home, and the cows come home fully cooked and falling off the bone delicious and are now classified at a subatomic level as a vegetable and I therefor no longer need to take statin drugs.Bill Schwannoreply@blogger.com