A Panpsychist Hypothesis (General)

by David Turell , Saturday, June 28, 2014, 21:05 (3799 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: If I believed in God (and remember, I neither believe nor disbelieve), I would accept that he is a person like no other person, we are a tiny portion of what he is, he is enormously powerful etc. We can't create universes or life or the mechanisms of evolution, and so those claims would be entirely credible. But I still wouldn't understand how he could know all about matter before matter exists, -God, in my view, would have to know about matter before he created it or how would He invent a universe which works? Yes, there is the possibiltiy of some experimentation since He used the process of evolution in having the universe develop from the BB.-> dhw: And I would even think it possible that he made my consciousness in the image of his own, and that wonderful things like love, empathy, and logical thinking might be part of our shared consciousness. But of course that is the curse of the agnostic. He will insist on keeping his mind open. -Mine is also.
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> dhw:Hardly surprising, since a glance at Wikipedia will tell you that many of the most prominent names are atheists. Of course that doesn't mean they are right, but it does suggest that quantum theory provides no more solid a basis for your beliefs than any other branch of the sciences.-I have chosen to place God in the quantum layer of reality. He can hid there and still run things. That is as far as I can go.