Dan wrote: > > > Well, I think that type of god would be a very poor excuse for God. It > reduces God to the mundane, and removes the transcendental nature of God.
Only to those that reach God's level of knowledge, eh? > > I think the question and the comments made within this thread of whatever > there is needing to part of the universe assume a connection between > understanding the universe and understanding what things are really like > apart from us that the evidence is tending against. Huh? Needing to part of the universe? > > One reference that I find useful in considering this is: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretation_of_quantum_mechanics > > which includes a partial table of QM interpretations. Reading through > these > various interpretations of QM and you get a wide variety of descriptions > of > reality. I can add a few more descriptions that would also be consistent > with QM. > > This is not to say there have been no advancements in the understanding in > the foundation of QM. There have been, including the work on decoherence > that offers some hope of a QM theory of QM measurement (works OK as a toy > model, but hasn't gone much further....but that's still not a bad thing). > > However, with all of these advances, the QM "weirdness" has not been > eliminated, it's just been pushed to another corner. In the sciam website > there was a discussion of a potential experimental test at the Plank limit > that might be able to turn at least some interpretations into theories. > But, further reading on this subject indicates that the same sorta thing > that happens with decoherence will also happen here.....the fundamental > interpretation problem is not solved by turning the interpretation into > theories....rather the interpretation problem is merely stated in a new > way. > > So, given this state of the mundane, I hope you can see why I do not > believe > in a God rooted in the mundane. So what are you saying Dan? We're at the end of knowledge? There must be a god because we're not smart enough? Imagine if you will, human beings with bio-computational implants that not only give them the memory and computational power of todays supercomputers, but the ability to network with others that have the same implants. Then try to imagine that that's just the very beginning. Doug _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
