The Templeton Foundation gives sizeable grants to projects for reconciling science and religion, and awards a yearly prize of two million dollars to a philosopher or scientist whose work highlights the "spiritual dimension of scientific progress."
Go for it, Bruno! If Paul Davies can do it with a rather mediocre tome like "The Mind of God" - you will surely impress them with your machine theology - none of which they will understand, so it will surely command respect. Not a cynical suggestion; if the Templeton Foundation is anything beyond a perverse attempt to reward scientists who are prepared to say something nice about religion, then your setting this whole science/ religion (physical sciences/human sciences; whatever) house in order will surely be worth the two million. And then you would be obliged to write a book about it all that will show the materialist/atheists a thing or two! Hands up if you think Bruno should apply for a Templeton grant!!! With two million in his bank balance, he might even come out to Australia to visit me and Russell!!! What happened to Step 7, Doctor? warmest regards Kim Another annoying feature of the term "metaphysics" is that it has made it quasi-impossible for physicians to do metaphysics, since "meta" here has a sense corresponding to "meta" in metamathematics (the old name for Recursion Theory). Now, most physicians would argue (at least before the rise of the quantum) that such a "meta-physics" is simply physics. Which means: physicians, together with their laboratories and their libraries simply obey.... the laws of physics. OK, but when you say the same thing of quantum mechanics, you are now heading toward Everett and the Many-Worlds interpretation. Everett was the first serious "meta-physician" in that sense. Well, Galileo and Einstein (among others) also helped to prepare the terrain for this 'desanthropomorphisation' process. Embedding the subject into the object of study. Embedding the spectator in the spectacles, as the Hindu says. - Bruno Marchal http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ Email: kimjo...@ozemail.com.au Web: http://web.mac.com/kmjcommp/Plenitude_Music Phone: (612) 9389 4239 or 0431 723 001 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
