[FairfieldLife] Re: Are We the First Cause?

2015-03-18 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are We the First Cause?

2015-03-18 Thread salyavin808
---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?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are We the First Cause?

2015-03-18 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are We the First Cause?

2015-03-18 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are We the First Cause?

2015-03-17 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are We the First Cause?

2015-03-17 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are We the First Cause?

2015-03-17 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
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