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  1. RestlessSoul

    Some scientists believe the universe is conscious

    I think you’ve misunderstood. I said that dark matter is observable in principle but no particle has yet been observed. The term ‘in principle’ implies either that it will be observed at some time in the future, or that cosmological models dependent on dark matter for their validity will have to...
  2. RestlessSoul

    Some scientists believe the universe is conscious

    The examples you offer are all, at least in principle (no dark matter particle has yet been observed) observable physical phenomena. We cannot say the same of consciousness, which can only be observed subjectively, by itself, from within.
  3. RestlessSoul

    Happy Birthday Mock Turtle!!

    Happy Birthday
  4. RestlessSoul

    A lot Of People Talk About Needing Evidence To Believe There’s A God

    And right there is the gulf in perception the OP points to. To some of us, everything in existence is miraculous. To others, nothing is. These appear to be non commensurate paradigms. Not sure why you have provided a link to the Kalam argument?
  5. RestlessSoul

    Some scientists believe the universe is conscious

    No, it wouldn’t indicate any such thing. It would indicate that consciousness in humans is dependent on a neural network, as galaxies are dependent on gravity, and living things are dependent on sunlight. This does not indicate that they are one and the same. Nobody, as far as I am aware, is...
  6. RestlessSoul

    Some scientists believe the universe is conscious

    My imagination is a phenomenon without material substance. So is yours. Your definition of consciousness, on the other hand, is absolutely without substance. The brain is not the mind, correlates notwithstanding; the former is an organ of the body which can be weighed, measured, and examined...
  7. RestlessSoul

    A lot Of People Talk About Needing Evidence To Believe There’s A God

    I don't see any logical fallacy in the simple observation that, if existence is truly miraculous, some Power far greater than us must have initiated the miracle.
  8. RestlessSoul

    A lot Of People Talk About Needing Evidence To Believe There’s A God

    Well if there's a plan, I'd imagine we're all part of it, believer and non believer alike. But who knows the mind of God? Certainly not me.
  9. RestlessSoul

    A lot Of People Talk About Needing Evidence To Believe There’s A God

    I’m not the one dismissing what I don’t understand
  10. RestlessSoul

    Some scientists believe the universe is conscious

    Pot, meet kettle
  11. RestlessSoul

    Some scientists believe the universe is conscious

    Thanks for pointing that out, Captain Obvious.
  12. RestlessSoul

    Some scientists believe the universe is conscious

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  13. RestlessSoul

    Scientists say human consciousness comes from another dimension

    You're welcome :thumbsup::thumbsup: A "Complex" Theory of Consciousness.
  14. RestlessSoul

    Evidence That the Absence of a God is Not Possible

    But it - whatever it may be - doesn't go away just because you dismiss it.
  15. RestlessSoul

    Some scientists believe the universe is conscious

    There is as yet no scientific understanding of how consciousness arises from complex nervous systems, anymore than there is scientific understanding of how living organisms arise from complex chemistry.
  16. RestlessSoul

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    The joke is funny because it implies that adults will always get tired of answering questions before children will tire of asking them. Yet another reason not to completely stifle the child in us, imo. The question you believed you answered assumes that any natural process must necessarily be...
  17. RestlessSoul

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    And yet the moon still goes round the earth, and we continue to ask both how and why; which as you point out, are different questions with different implications. Both may be ultimately unanswerable; gravity is not really an answer to the How question, unless we can answer the question, What is...
  18. RestlessSoul

    Some scientists believe the universe is conscious

    It's based on observation of consciousness itself. And in the case of Integrated Information Theory Integrated information theory - Wikipedia , supported by mathematical modelling and experimentation on wakeful, sleeping, anaesthetised and comatose individuals.
  19. RestlessSoul

    fear of cities?

    I :heart: London. My country is having a lot of problems adjusting to the 21st Century, and London is not immune; the wealth gap is appalling, and the housing crisis is making life hard for younger working people. But this is still a city built for people, and the people make the city. And our...
  20. RestlessSoul

    Mother mary without sin?

    It clearly isn't. And if you grew up in Ireland you'll no doubt have had people explain the difference to you. Catholicism is loaded with iconography, which does look a lot like idolatry, granted. And there's quite a cult of The Blessed Virgin in Ireland, which probably looks like mumbo-jumbo to...
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