More thoughts on faith in LENR. It seems to me that LENR can be considered more like a religion going forward.
Let us draw another analogy between religious faith and faith in LENR. Consider Pascal’s Wager. Pascal's Wager is an argument in apologetic philosophy which was devised by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist, Blaise Pascal. It posits that humans all bet with their lives either that God exists or does not exist. Given the possibility that God actually does exist and assuming the infinite gain or loss associated with belief in God or with unbelief, a rational person should live as though God exists and seek to believe in God. If God does not actually exist, such a person will have only a finite loss (some pleasures, luxury, etc.). The philosophy uses the following logic (excerpts from Pensées, part III, §233): 1. "God is, or He is not" 2. A Game is being played... where heads or tails will turn up. 3. According to reason, you can defend neither of the propositions. 4. You must wager. (It's not optional.) 5. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. 6. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. (...) There is here an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss, and what you stake is finite. And so our proposition is of infinite force, when there is the finite to stake in a game where there are equal risks of gain and of loss, and the infinite to gain. Pascal asks the reader to analyze the position of mankind, this crisis of existence and lack of complete understanding. While Mankind can discern a great deal through reason, it is also hopelessly removed from knowing everything through it. He describes Mankind as a finite being trapped within an incomprehensible infinity. Let us apply Pascels philosophical logic(risk-reward, gain-loss tradeoff analysis) to LENR. 1. "LENR is, or LENR is not" 2. A Game is being played... where heads or tails will turn up. 3. According to reason, you can defend neither of the propositions. 4. You must wager. (It's not optional.) 5. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that LENR is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. 6. Wager, then, without hesitation that LENR is. (...) There is here an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss, and what you stake is finite. And so our proposition is of infinite force, when there is the finite to stake in a game where there are equal risks of gain and of loss, and the infinite to gain. What will it cost if LENR is not? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/24/arctic-methane-climate-change_n_3643917.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=072513&utm_medium=email&utm_content=FeatureTitle Arctic Methane Release Due To Climate Change Could Cost Global Economy $60 Trillion, Study Reports This multi trillion cost estimate is far too low. We will be facing disease, pestilence, death, and massive property loss as a species in the triple digit trillion dollar range; crop failure, mass starvation, population collapse, all the worlds coastal cities under water, constant wars over "Lebensraum," (*living space), * desertification… you get the picture. If LENR is real, we avoid a near extinction event. The object lesson to be drawn by this gain-loss tradeoff analysis…we had better get LENR working and fielded as soon as possible. Don’t let the fear engendered by the loss of pride and some insignificant pittance in money that may result in being SCAMMED stop progress in LENR development. On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: > My dear friends, > I have just published: > > http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2013/07/defkalion-has-kept-its-promise.html > > Good news coming... > Peter > > > -- > Dr. Peter Gluck > Cluj, Romania > http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com >
