The limitations of science (The limitations of science)

by David Turell , Friday, July 02, 2010, 14:44 (5257 days ago) @ dhw
edited by unknown, Friday, July 02, 2010, 14:58

2)	The "problem of consciousness", on the other hand, seems to me to be highly underrated by virtually everyone I know. All the mental processes, such as awareness, will, memory, imagination, reason etc. are completely beyond our understanding, and most people simply take them for granted. It's as if the words explain the reality, whereas they explain nothing. All we know is that somehow these abilities seem to be associated with electrical activities in specific areas of the brain. Common sense tells me that a functioning mechanism of such unfathomable complexity requires the intervention of preexisting intelligence.
> 3)	We learned recently that it took 2000 scientists 13 years to decode the genome, and still no-one knows how the parts interact in order to produce variations from species to species. Common sense tells me that a functioning mechanism of such unfathomable complexity etc.-There are some errors of omission above: in 2 one should think of the amazing work of instinct. The baby foal or calf is born, struggles to walk within minutes and shortly thereafter is suckling its first meal. Birds fly thousands of miles to migrate and mitigate adverse weather changes as seasons shift. How does DNA in the neurons accomplish this? At a low level of consciousness, animals know what to do. Plants show heliotropism and geotropism, and they are probably less conscious.-In 3 the decoding is totally incomplete. Epigenetics is a recently awakening area of study. There is layer upon layer of complex controls, so a single gene can do ten jobs. Neo-Darwinism is under mathematical attack. See my last entry that I hope Matt will evaluate. It is in line with the James Shapiro work.-Here is an epigenetic study, 2,750 years to change human genetics at great altitude: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19117-tibetans-adapted-to-high-life-at-recordbrea... view of the increasingly complex underpinnings of life, one must highly consider an intelligence is at work.