Quantum zeno effect (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, August 26, 2013, 15:39 (4107 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw:If the God in all your particles remains connected to the God in all the other particles, we have panpsychism: some form of intelligence in every particle. The fact is that no matter what we believe, particles have coalesced to create the universe and us. You like to have it both ways: your God is outside them organizing them and inside them organizing them, though how this works nobody knows. If we substitute "intelligence" for "God", my hypothetical scenario has intelligence organizing all the "discrete" particles from inside, in the same way that our own "discrete" cells have intelligence inside them, coalescing to form our bodies. Again nobody knows how this works. Where did the original intelligence come from? Another unanswerable question, whether you believe in God or not.-DAVID: It does have an answer: God is both consciousness and intelligence and is the first cause, being eternal. The answer we do not know is how many times has He made a universe with humans in it? If He has been around for an infinity of time and each universe lasts about 100 billion years, as estimated ours will, a small part of infinity, then He has made an infinite number. Maybe we are the latest improvement, which means considering the way we humans act, he has got to try a lot more times.-An interesting digression, but it can't disguise the fact that you now realize you believe in intelligent particles which organized the universe, although earlier you dismissed the idea as "flights of fantasy" and "a bunch of micro-consciousnesses running around". Instead of calling them particles, we just have to call them godicles.