Isn't that cosmic consciousness, Vam?
On Jun 28, 6:24 am, Vamadevananda <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jim, really speaking beyond mere more terms and thoughts, I do not
> even know how the dog derives many, many times more from the bone I
> discarded as nothing ! The fact is empirical. But do I understand
> it ? I do not know.
>
> The other day, a journalist academic analysed racism and opined : We
> are not racists. Just that some among us are ignorant and, hence,
> display their prejudices which seem racist. That, I found, was a mere
> explanation of racist behaviour. It was irrelevent to the question :
> Are we racist ?
>
> I believe that alongwith science, which indeed we might know
> everything of, we need to know the answer to such questions, which is
> what I am afraid we ALL will never know ALL at the SAME TIME, for ALL
> TIME.
>
> On Jun 28, 1:20 am, retiredjim34 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Looking back over recent decades it seems clear that we (mankind) is
> > coming to know, in a scientific sense, more and more about more and
> > more, and faster and faster. Will there ever come a time when we will
> > know everything about everything?
> > I’ve asked a number of people this question, and all say “no.” But
> > it
> > seems to me that the correct answer is “yes.” Why?
> > First, I’m talking about knowing all the scientific laws governing
> > the physical universe – nothing more, nothing less. The physical
> > universe is immense, but finite. Science has long assumed that the
> > laws governing our small bit of it are universal; they apply
> > everywhere in the universe just as they apply here. Given then that
> > the physical universe is finite, it would seem that the laws governing
> > it are also finite. And as we come to know them here faster and
> > faster, at some point it would seem that we will know everything about
> > everything.
> > This also seems to me to be consistent with what Einstein and others
> > have long sought – the ultimate theory of everything. (This effort is
> > well described by Brian Greene in his book The Elegant Universe.) If
> > knowing everything were obviously not possible, surely this group
> > would never have begun pursuing that ultimate theory.
> > How might we tell when we are approaching the point where we know
> > everything? I expect the growth of knowledge is gaussian. As we
> > approach knowing everything the rate of knowledge growth will
> > gradually slow. So by monitoring this rate of growth we should be able
> > to predict when we will know everything. Right?
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