Re: dhw--Epistemological Framework (Order of Rank?) (Humans)

by David Turell , Tuesday, March 08, 2011, 01:42 (5009 days ago) @ xeno6696


> > > Again... false distinctions, chance and design. Think process; no plan, only movement along an idea; inspiration on a cosmic scale. Explains much more than thinking of God as engineer... this view embraces chance and design as unity... not ALL things are guided.-> 
> To speak more plainly, this version of God I'm discussing didn't start out with a concrete plan because it IS the universe. There wasn't an if->then; remember again that God told Moses "I AM" for his name. Why? Jewish mystics, Sufis, Gnostics (when they were around) and Hindus all came to a similar conclusion about unity, even about this very idea we're discussing. The version of God I'm discussing exists only at this moment, can only modify things as he moves based on past knowledge and future prediction. He gets an idea to create conscious beings in order to not be alone, perhaps, so works through experiment to get the universe where it needs to go so that in at least one pocket, sentient beings arrive and can fathom him.-That is the best description of process theology I've read; I may not fully agree with it, but I have learned!
 
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> Einstein's spacetime is a mathematical construct that eliminated time as a fourth dimension and simply treats time and space as the same quantity. Time is relative--that's the whole point of the theory of relativity. If time were a real dimension, it would be the same for all bodies of mass everywhere, but for massive bodies, they experience time at a slower rate than small bodies. -And faster bodies become smaller. And speed slows the machines we construct to tell time. Makes more sense to me than it did before. But what of the proposal that a twin who travels near the speed of light returns to Earth much younger than his brother. If time is just a human construct how does it affect biological processes of aging, or does it?