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Rybo said:Loops Quantum gravity theoretical physicist Lee Smolin is on this page along with others.
Lee Smolin wrote The Elegant Universe, one of my favs. Good stuff.
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Rybo said:Loops Quantum gravity theoretical physicist Lee Smolin is on this page along with others.
g[x] said:Lee Smolin wrote The Elegant Universe, one of my favs. Good stuff.
Rybo said:No Gx, Lee Smolins only other book is "Life of the Cosmos" (an evolving physical and metaphyscial Universe) with a less determinant(more free will-like) facets/aspects type of Uiverse and more evolutionary
Brian Green wrote "The Elegant Universe" and his last book "the Fabric of the Cosmos". There hs states "Free will is a tricky issue, even absent the complicating factor of time travel" He goes on to say he is convince in a deterministic Universe.
g[x] said:My apologies, you are absolutely correct. I have a hellacious cold and am not in possession of my full faculties. Thank you for correcting that... I did mean to say "Life of the Cosmos." Bah, I hate being sick...
) It will make you feel better before the day is over. Rybo said:No need to apologize for minor error Gx.
Free will and placebos ergo mind over matter, to some degree, is a real phenomena as proved by experiments.
Im always amazed at these blind placebo experiments were people get better from there illness, real or illusionary, from merely believing the pill they have been given i swell knon to solve their proble.
g[x] said:Fascinating indeed. What scientific method is there to quantize belief? The logical side brings to mind possible effects of hormonal activity, caused by strong emotion or stress, which in turn might cause various chemical changes inducing some kind of psychosomatic response, seemingly a spontaneous immunal reaction... but the link between where thoughts of presumed effects originates, implanted by another or created on one's own, and where the actual biochemical responses occur, remains elusive.
In any case, goodwill never seemed to hurt... and neither did a little honey.
Icebreaker said:We are chemical reactions walking around in a bag. We do not have free will.
Problem+Solve=Reason said:I've have never heard of a chemical reaction wanting to do up their hair so they look nice, or want to be with another chemical reaction because that chemical reaction makes them feel good about their outward appearance. Nor have I seen a chemical reaction find beuty in the world, or make up an interpersonal idea that his being is simply a chemical reaction.
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