On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 12:19 AM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > One way to see that consciousness and physics are not tightly constrained > is to note that our consciousness seems adapted to living on a flat Earth > in which Newtonian mechanics prevails. No mystery in that, Evolution doesn't demand a perfect solution to a problem just one that is good enough to allow genes to get into the next generation; a understanding of Newtonian physics , or even more primitive intuitive physics, works well enough to know which way to run if a Saber Toothed Tiger is jumping at you. > > > The "laws of physics", as we've presently congratulated ourselves on > inventing, are so far from intuitive that there are endless arguments over > how to interpret them. If we could run close to the speed of light or were the size of a atom, or equivalently if the speed of light were smaller or the Planck Constant were larger (as in George Gamow's Mr. Thompson books) General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics would be intuitively obvious to us. John K Clark -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
