On Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 1:39:20 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 5 Oct 2019, at 15:47, Lawrence Crowell <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > On Saturday, October 5, 2019 at 4:26:44 AM UTC-5, Samiya wrote: >> >> Interesting! >> Consider the ayaat quoted in this slide: > > > I suppose next you will say the Koran has a hidden solution to Riemann's > conjecture on the ζ-function. I have met or known Christian who have said > such things about the Bible; all that can be known is in scripture. > > Scriptures work because people can twist them around to say almost > anything. That is how these things work and why they persist. This only > talks about lightning in a way not different from ideas of Thor throwing > thunderbolts. It say nothing of real significance. > > > > There has been study showing why people extract sense from pure > randomness, and even more from any text, when they are motivated to see > them there. > > Now I use often the bible to shake a bit the witness of Jehovah, when > asking them if PI is equal to 3, as said implicitly in the Bible. Some say > “yes”, showing the “authority argument” implicit in such reading. > > Of course the theology of the greeks was dissociated rather clearly from > all myth and legend. Only reasoning was accepted, even if motivated by > personal feeling or experience. > > Religion is in no text, and concerned the non nameable things, from Cantor > collection of all sets, to natural numbers, which cannot be defined > (provably so with Mechanism, but also true intuitively when you think about > it. > > Bruno > > > The brain is a sort of puzzle solving system. We have a compulsion to make sense out of things. We see this with gambling, where people will persist in playing games that have odds weighed in favor of the house. People will drain away their entire savings by running to a casino. Religion is something similar, where believers will spend a lifetime working to make some consistent sense out of a jumble of mythic narratives.
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