A belief is not evidence of anything. I have beliefs too. They are not evidence
either. Humans cannot observe the results of a double slit experiment directly,
their sensory apparatus is too crude to see anything of this sort. The role of
humans is in interpreting the readouts of machines that
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jr_esq@... wrote :
The author of this article states it is so. But he appears to be clueless to
the idea that consciousness is the basis of the universe and reality. He also
states that we may be alone in the universe. What do you think?
Salyavin,
I think the author is talking nonsense. Yes, more likely he has
misinterpreted the statements by scientists regarding the role of the observer
in science experiments. It is unreasonable to think that we created the
universe, as he says. Was he there before the Big Bang?
He
Xeno,
I believe the universe is based on consciousness. Some of the recent
scientific discoveries are hinting to this very possibility. For example,
there is the famous double slit experiment of light beams which shows that
light is both a wave and a particle at the same time.
The
S3,
Actually, we may not be the only intelligent life in the universe. There may
other humanoids in our galaxy alone. It is possible that the universe has an
inherent program to evolve humanoids wherever and whenever the conditions are
right to grow creatures like us.
If there are
The title of the article - Why the Earth Will Never Be Invaded - says a lot.
Why should we project our human proclivities on alien life forms? Just because
we have a fondness for building empires doesn't mean that aliens do also.
Perhaps they spend their lives studying science, writing poetry
Is the author in saying we are the 'first cause' saying anything different from
saying 'consciousness is the basis of the universe and reality'?
A materialist would say consciousness is an emergent property of evolution,
while an idealist would say the reverse, that the material world is