And the day came when man conceived of a materialistic, deterministic, reductionistic, objectively real clockwork universe made of space, time, energy and matter governed by fixed, unchanging physical constants and laws ... In the words of mathematician and astronomer Pierre Simon de Laplace... We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at any given moment knew all of the forces that animate nature and the mutual positions of the beings that compose it, if this intellect were vast enough to submit the data to analysis, could condense into a single formula the movement of the greatest bodies of the universe and that of the lightest atom; for such an intellect nothing could be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes. Microscopic particles that become atoms that become molecules that become macroscopic, perceivable, concrete, tangible stuff. Randomness and disorder that transforms into order that transforms into patterns that transform into self-organisation. Simple chunks of inanimate matter that evolve into complex, organised chunks of animate matter that somehow evolve into self-aware, conscious chunks of matter that are able to think, feel, experience, share, create, communicate... https://youtube/watch?v=NZsFTjW7mvs
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 03:33:25 +0000
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