On Apr 17, 3:05 pm, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > But a very slight rearrangement by your local anesthesiologist and *you* > don't have any > sense at all - even though the atoms are still there. Of course they are > entirely > different atoms than were constituting you a year ago. >
I can turn on the internet by pushing a few buttons. That doesn't mean that consequences of keyboard activity are causing the internet. Atoms being replaced continuously changes the arrangement continuously as well. It makes sense to me that patterns are dependent upon pattern recognition and have no causal efficacy in and of themselves. No byte has every done anything by itself. I think it may be the case too that the whole Standard Model rests on a faulty foundation, so that although our measurements and observations are assumed to be objective and universal, in fact they are attributable directly to the common sense of matter which makes up our instruments, bodies, and brain alike. Our view of the microcosm assumes significance from the outside in, despite our own experience of significance arising from the inside out as well. It may be that there is a sense-making inertia which drives the arrangement of atoms from the top down and from within. I have not seen this possibility suggested by anyone else and it seems likely to me that it simply has not been considered. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
