Science and love, music, art, etc. (The limitations of science)

by Mark , Friday, February 13, 2009, 18:15 (5559 days ago) @ David Turell

Thanks for that. I'm familiar with quantum mechanics. The new part to me is the theory that matter in the form we perceive it only exists that way because we perceive it. After a bit of hunting, I wonder if this is the "Participatory Anthropic Principle" advocated by John Wheeler that you have in mind? It's a bit of a red herring anyway in relation to the present debate. It is very clear that matter is stranger than we can imagine, and related to mind in ways that we cannot conceive. And it is hard to see that it is possible to arrive at mind from the building blocks of quanta, bottom-up.