Category: Science
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Spirituality vs Science: Missing the Point
A few minutes into that video on the previous post Leonard Mlodinow says something like neither Hawking nor he, and presumably neither science in general, rule out the possibility of there being a God. But really thinking of “God” as a fact is not what spirituality is about. God as a symbol for that which…
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The War of the Worldviews: A Zen Review
OK, so I haven’t read the book. Or have I? Quantum theory would say that there is at least one Universe in which I have. But we’ll stick with the consciousness that I am experiencing now. I haven’t read the book. I’ve seen Deepak tweet about it for a while now. I follow Leonard Mlodinow,…
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Ebert, Dawkins, Maher, & Hitchens’ Neo-Determinism
Determinism, the idea that everything can be explained, has a “reason”, died in 1906, the “Miracle” Year when Einstein came up with Special Relativity. Turned out Light didn’t care what the Victorians thought and didn’t obey “reason.” By 1925, with the Quantum Theory, whatever vestige of this mechanized view of the World was laid to…
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Quantum Leaping Through Time & Space
I haven’t written about this subject in a long time. I just picked up a Science book for the first time in a long time and I was re-fascinated by the “reality” of what is really going on inside and outside us. I’ve read these books so many times and realized it before, but it’s…