Howard Is
Lucky Mud
Yes.
It means that sometimes we use poetry, metaphor etc to communicate an idea.
Unless we are straightjacketed by a scientific paradigm.
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The purpose of life
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Yes.
It means that sometimes we use poetry, metaphor etc to communicate an idea.
Unless we are straightjacketed by a scientific paradigm.
Howard Is
Lucky Mud
What are the neurones made of ?
Are you aware that it is posited that quantum computing is happening in the tubules of your neurones ?
That’s the universe at work.
That’s you.
Cooky
Veteran Member
Where did you learn this methodological idea from? Is it some kind of wisdom you can share?
Part of, a very small part of it
Refer to your first post to me then look at the quoted text above...
Learn it? Just basic chemist 101, sentient rocks? No... Sentient hydrogen? No.
Ah so you think making stuff up makes it easy when you don't understand something.
Cooky
Veteran Member
You lost me there... Not sure what you're talking about.
Do you want to have a serious conversation? I mean, I'm genuinely curious where you're coming from. I don't want to change your mind.
The question was:
...I mean that in regards to actively objecting to all that is not known empirical knowledge. You didn't get it from science, I know that.
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Cooky
Veteran Member
Do you reject all hypotheses..?
Howard Is
Lucky Mud
That is just an outright rude and ignorant remark.
Cooky
Veteran Member
I think she truly doesn't understand that all theories begin with humans consciously imagining ideas.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." ~ Albert Einstein
Howard Is
Lucky Mud
OK Ms scientific genius. What exactly is sentience, and how is it not the activity of your body ?
How are your neurones not hydrogen, carbon etc ?
If sentience is neurones, and neurones are arrangements of molecules, and the material universe is also molecules (well, about 0.01% is molecules, most of it is plasma), then how is sentience different from the activity of the very stuff which is the universe ?
And I want real science, not bafflegab and speculation.
If you know I’m wrong, then answer that simple question.
Milton Platt
Well-Known Member
Why would we presume there is some purpose to our lives other than the one(s) we assign to them?
Milton Platt
Well-Known Member
Human lives have the purposes we assign to them ourselves, both individually and as a society. I have a number of purposes I have appropriated to myself, as have we all.
Cooky
Veteran Member
Because life "strives" in and of itself all the time.
...What is the notion of "striving" from? Is "striving" possibly a universal or natural law? Because we see it in nature. What else strives I wonder.
Howard Is
Lucky Mud
FYI, that striving is called paraprakriti in the Bhagavad Gita. Krishna tells Arjuna that his His body (the universe) has inferior energy (prakriti - matter in motion) and superior energy, paraprkriti, which consists of those beings striving with prakriti, the material nature.
To me that is poetic and observably meaningful.
Milton Platt
Well-Known Member
But is that a purpose or a function? I think the OP was leaning towards something more philosophical or esoteric?
Cooky
Veteran Member
If we see it in nature, then it's a Natural Law. If something is a Natural Law, it can only follow that it be a Universal Law too.
...We just haven't spotted it out there yet.
Howard Is
Lucky Mud
The territory is not constrained by the map. Although our perception of it may be.
Howard Is
Lucky Mud
Is there striving without purpose ?
To me they are synonyms. Or at least, striving is the expression of purpose.