So what is the difference between you and a rock? This seems like an easy, even stupid question. But even the smartest people on earth have no idea where to draw the line between living and dead things. Which leads to mind-blowing implications. What is life after all? And is death really a thing? Lets look into it together
Interesting vid. Thoughts?
Note: “Manages to,” in the title quotation from the vid, doesn’t quite cover it. Life seeks to ensure its continued existence. Many inanimate things continue to exist through no will of their own, like the water, the wind, and the sun.
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Selfish information? Why not. No one ever said the designers are not evil.
Nice irony. Tenured faculty are among the most purpose-driven people in the world. They are willing to spend 30 years blindly obeying the commands of Thesis Advisers, in order to spend 20 years being the Thesis Adviser. Pure purpose. No joy, no intrinsic pleasure.
And yet they refuse to acknowledge that NON-TENURE-TRACK life forms are capable of being driven by purpose.
This verse came to mind as I watched the video:
Of note, Consciousness precedes material reality and is therefore not a product of material reality
Also of interest:
If people really want to find out where life comes from, I stongly suggest looking to the One who died on the cross and rose again as a propitiation for our sins:
Verse and Music:
A cellular solution to an information-processing problem
biology might offer solutions to hard optimization problems
optimal strategies have been arrived at multiple times in diverse cell biology contexts
Read more here:
http://www.uncommondescent.com.....ent-537002
BA77, thanks again for the intriguing links. I really loved the ending of “The Experiment that Debunked Materialism”. Seth Lloyd, professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT said, “I’ve argued that the universe is effectively a quantum computer, in fact not even effectively — actually is a quantum computer.”
This rings a bell with the latest piece of philosophy that I have been toying around with. My question is, “is the quanta, well, God”. When we experiment with the quanta, are we actually running experiments on the mind of God himself.
This position would nicely combine three great philosophical lines of reasoning: science (which discovered the quanta and recognizes that all matter in the universe is made up of quanta), monism (the philosophy that all is God, and God is all — approximately), and monotheism — there is one all powerful, all encompassing, all knowing God.
Hmmm, is this line of reasoning compatible with Christianity? So far I have found no reason to believe that it would not.
At 3m57s the narrator suddenly stopped making any sense whatsoever:
So, we have no idea what life is, but one thing is for sure: it’s just fermions and bosons.
You can’t have death without life. Our Universe is just as fine tuned for death as it is for life. Maybe the true purpose of the universe is to generate death.
Some believe death (ie after-life) is the same as pre-life. A nothingness. Something from nothing leads to nothing from something. That violates so many laws it’s not funny. At least reincarnation is mathematically feasible:)
But even reincarnation based beliefs point out a way to rise above the cycle of reincarnation. A way. As a Christian, I also firmly believe in a way. THE way;)
Maybe the true purpose of our Universe is to generate death. Generate after-life. THE after-life.
Closing sentence of the video:
And, it is also thinking about things like this that makes us uniquely human(among other things)
And why is it that they so often speak of non-living things as if they have mind, personality, purpose, intention, decision making ability, etc.?!!
Information just is. It has no mind, purpose, intention, desire or goal. But talking about these things as if they do is common place in scientific literature. Why?! It’s so unscientific!
Why not rather speak in a scientifically correct way?
My guess is that it makes evolution seem more credible.
Not to do that would constantly be emphasizing the randomness of the process and too much of that might negatively impact people.