Thanks, Colin. I just wonder why "scientific" observer? Your parenthetic "Observer" ( i.e. consciousness, IMO a respondent to relations) has nothing to do with (our) 'science' based on today's levels of knwoledge. I appreciate your excempting 'ourselves' (the human observer) from a TOE.
Cheers John On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:40 PM, colin hales <col.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > [image: 😊] > Perhaps better.... > > All posited (so far) scientific TOE are actually wrongly named. They would > be correctly named: > > "Theories predicting how the universe appears to an assumed scientific > observer inside it" > > Or maybe > > "Theories of everything except the scientific observer" > > By Scientific observer I mean consciousness... What scientific observation > uses/is. > > From here you might ask yourself what a scientist would be doing if they > _were_ explaining the scientific observer (consciousness). For whatever > that is, it's not a member of the set of the kind of science outcomes in > which these so-called TOE sit, smugly claiming everything while actually > failing without realizing. > > Cheers > Colin > ------------------------------ > From: Bruce Kellett <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au> > Sent: ‎14/‎05/‎2015 9:15 AM > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > Subject: Theories that explain everything explain nothing > > As an aside to recent discussions, it is interesting to point out that > physics has some of the problems associated with over-confidence in > ideas coming from pure intuition too. > > http://aeon.co/magazine/science/has-cosmology-run-into-a-creative-crisis > > This article by Ross Anderson in Aeon Magazine surveys some of the > recent history of press announcements by leading cosmologists. Believing > too strongly in your own pet theory can be a dangerous pastime. > > Bruce > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
