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tak
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intelligent design or evolution?
#2987400 - 08/10/04 05:20 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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I was just reading somewhere about the symbios and whatnot of the universe. Alot of people believe that because of how everything works so well together, that there must be some kind of intelligence behind the scenes.
Others seem to think that because we/anything did ever infact exist, that it was a series of evolution, and all/any possible cause/event outcomes.
Do you think everything seemlessly works together because it was planned to?
Or do you think that it was survival of the fittest, and what was presented with the right envoronment at the right time continued to exist?
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Re: intelligent design or evolution? [Re: tak]
#2987566 - 08/10/04 05:51 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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This is hard to explain but I've always thought of it as we know life/universe exists and we know life/universe could of not existed but as it does exist maybe it couldn't possibly be any other way. For us to be thinking this question we must of come from randomness which is mainly evolution.
Its to simple to me to say everything was planned, reality is chaotic.
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tak
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Re: intelligent design or evolution? [Re: Ego Death]
#2987653 - 08/10/04 06:09 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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I have always had trouble thinking of non-existance. Just doesnt work!
On what you said though, we exist now, and everything that happens is based on cause and effect. Things happen because of physical, and mental laws wich allow them to happen. So everything that has happend, could not have happend any other way? This goes into the question of free will. Do we really have free will, or do we make descisions based on past experience, weather, time, what we saw on TV an hour ago, and choose the best possible outcome.
If everything were to happen a given way based on a complex rule-set, then whoever wrote the rules could infact know the outcome, and reverse engineer it to provide the right starting circumstances?
Sigh. The game of life...I hope there is a big jackpot for us all in the end for playing.
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Re: intelligent design or evolution? [Re: tak]
#2988241 - 08/10/04 08:14 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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intelligent design or evolution?
How about intelligent design through evolution?
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Re: intelligent design or evolution? [Re: tak]
#2988262 - 08/10/04 08:17 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think it created itself and then evolved from there.. but that's just my opinion.
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Re: intelligent design or evolution? [Re: tak]
#2988329 - 08/10/04 08:30 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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survival of the fittest all the way!
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Re: intelligent design or evolution? [Re: silversoul7]
#2988704 - 08/10/04 09:48 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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silversoul7 said:
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intelligent design or evolution?
How about intelligent design through evolution?
booyah.
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Re: intelligent design or evolution? [Re: BleaK]
#2989180 - 08/11/04 12:29 AM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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If you're interested in this question read "The Panda's Thumb"
Basically, it illustrates this point well.. pointing out that there are many adaptions in nature that are clearly make-shift jobs, not "best possible" but "best available" solutions to problems.
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Re: intelligent design or evolution? [Re: Mushmonkey]
#2989218 - 08/11/04 12:42 AM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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You seem to be commingling the desire for truth with the desire to promote one's pre-existing paradigm.
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to reply ot your message...both...just read [Re: tak]
#2989246 - 08/11/04 12:52 AM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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Think for yourself. Question authority. Think for yourself. Through out human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact, that we do not know who we are or where we come from in this ocean of chaos. It has been the authorities, the educational, the political, the religious authorities who have attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused, vulnerability? to inform yourself. It has been well known since Newton that we normally perceive less than 0.5 (one half of one) of all known pulsations. Given the appropriate conditions, certain agents can be employed to enhance any aspect of mental performance, in this sense, making it more operationally effective. You see, culture is part of the unperturbed human mind, we are all conditioned and influenced to be a part of culture. A psychedelic drug can dissolve simplicity of cultural assumption. It is perturbation of the mind and the perturbed mind is a mind in the act of rediscovering the nature that lies outside of culture. So this tension, you might call for lack of a better word, reality actually creates a mental tension and societal constriction, a sort of sub-conscious control. Hallucinogens dissolve cultural coping [with control] and hence have a political charge among them. A political mind, unperturbed, lacks a substitution for social discovery. See our evolution, I suppose, from the animal kingdom into the human kingdom it self was catalyzed or triggered by our encounter with these hallucinogens. We are an ape with a symbiotic relationship to a mushroom and that has given us self-reflection, language, religion, and all the spectrum of effects that flow from these things, and only one can wonder how these phenomenal hallucinogens might effect our future evolution as well, they have brought us to this point and as we make our relationship to the conscious we maybe able to take control of our future evolutionary path. Psilocybin is related to serotonin, a neurotransmitter that occurs in all life and is most concentrated in states of joy or pleasure. So there is a very close structural energy between this extremely cultural, philosophical hallucinogen and a very common basis for ordinary consciousness, serotonin, what it eats. An individual?s personality is often marked or even transformed by their experiences under the influence of these drugs. They have had an enormous impact on shaping various cultures, mentally, spiritually, and politically as well. Indeed, the whole hippy 60?s thing happened, in part, precisely because of the new ranges of conscious experience originally kick-started into existence by the mushroom. The growing second wave of psychedelic research has likewise appeared on the account of the compelling nature of the ethnogen-inspired states of consciousness. Hallucinogens complex ordinary human brain chemistry so there?s a suggestion there that manipulation of neuro-numeral compounds and neurotransmitters and those sorts of things may in fact open the door to un-tapped areas of human potential. The psychedelic experience results from an influx of information not normally available to us, hence ?the doors of perception being opened?, hence ?the fruit of knowledge?. Psilocybin simply highlights the boundless nature and mystical potential of the human mind, If we are interested in apprehending the ultimate nature of the reality process, then it makes sense to home in on consciousness, since consciousness represents the interface to the ?world out there? and everything imaginable. If we can understand what consciousness is, then we might also understand how consciousness is able to be transformed and whether such a transformation does indeed yield bonafied insights to the subtle nature of Nature. Nothing less than reality is up for grabs. What I eventually hope to show you is that consciousness itself is a form of information just like physical matters can be described in forms of information: that reality consist of the evolutionary flow of self-organizing information, with human consciousness occupying a significant role in the entire process. However before we can explore the exciting insights that such an informational model yields, we must first start from the beginning. That is we must look more closely at the obviously important physical relationship between psilocybin and the human brain. Now getting acquainted with the full spectrum of the psilocybin experience (and others like it), it is time to focus attention upon psilocybin?s physical modus operandi. If we can get into grips with how alkaloids like psilocybin work their spectacular effects upon the human psyche, than well be one step closer to a preliminary understanding of the nature of the conscious human mind and the underlying factors governing the switch from normal awareness to the mystical perception of an intelligent other. Man is endowed with the gift of wizardry, a talent for discovery and invention. The discovery and invention of substances that change the way we feel and behave are among man?s special accomplishments, and like so many other products of our wizardry, these substances have the capacity to harm as well to help. The substance itself is neutral, an intricate molecular structure. Yet, ?too much? can be sickening or even deadly. It is man who decides how each substance is used, and its mans beliefs and perceptions that give this neutral substance the attribute to heal or destroy. . That might sound rather intimidating, but lets face it, getting into intimate grips with nature in order to ascertain the meaning of life, consciousness and everything that really matters was never going to be a simple experience, but I assure you it is a deeply fascinating one though.
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Re: to reply ot your message...both...just read [Re: sillysimon]
#2990130 - 08/11/04 07:30 AM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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Interesting read, however, it seems as though that has been extracted from another source as it doesn't really hit home on the subject at hand. The essay is more on the history of psychedelic substances and there effect on *our* perception of existence rather than all existence and what forms that.
Quite true, there are many barriers that we must overcome in order to attempt to understand existence. However, I think that it is very dangerous to be drawing those conclusions from a substance that alters our perception of reality (in what way we, to be honest, have no idea).
How can you be so sure of a theory that is really still unknown? I am not going to assume there are more sound things to base our theories on. I just find it hard to be drawn to one side of the fence so easily.
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Re: intelligent design or evolution? [Re: Swami]
#2992868 - 08/11/04 07:27 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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"You seem to be co-mingling the desire for truth with the desire to promote one's pre-existing paradigm. "
Not at all. It's easy to find "perfect fits" in nature if you're trying to prove some intelligent mind designed things to work together; however it's every bit as easy to find jerry-rigged body parts that have been requisitioned for uses other than what they initially evolved for.
Could it be intelligent design through evolution? That's unanswerable. It could be that things were touched by some hand at some point in the distant past to influence the way evolution would progress in order to create some certain thing in the future. Unarguable unless you want to argue over the existance of God.
My point is simply that using the fact that things seem to work so perfectly in nature as evidence of an intelligent creator is just an empty box. Things don't fit nearly perfectly, there's always some give and some rub and some change. Pandas have 6 fingers. Some large pythons have vestigal "feet" that serve no purpose.
Sometimes, humans are born with tails. That's certainly not a "best fit", nor does it well lend itself to the idea that humans were created seperately from animals -- in fact it would seem to very strongly support the idea that humans once had tails, and threw poop.
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Re: intelligent design or evolution? [Re: Mushmonkey]
#2992967 - 08/11/04 07:57 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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maybe god created the world one second ago and all your memories and culture and civilisation were only just instantly created...
I read a creationist theory somewhere that said God created imperfection to help us in our quest for scientific knowledge, as it helped us to think outside the square.
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Re: intelligent design or evolution? [Re: haunted]
#2993117 - 08/11/04 08:40 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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How could love be an accident?
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BleaK
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accidents are not really accidents.
car accident is a good example.
its not an accident, its completly forseeable.
millions of idiots get in cars everyday.. just a matter of probability till someone hits something.
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Re: intelligent design or evolution? [Re: BleaK]
#2993501 - 08/11/04 10:20 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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don't start talking about probabilities.
The probability of an event happening has two values: -before it happens the probability of it happening is 0% (pre-probability) -after it happens the probability is 100% (post-probability)
love is just an extension of our own self-awareness. It is cultural.
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BleaK
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Re: intelligent design or evolution? [Re: haunted]
#2993517 - 08/11/04 10:23 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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haunted said: don't start talking about probabilities.
The probability of an event happening has two values: -before it happens the probability of it happening is 0% (pre-probability) -after it happens the probability is 100% (post-probability)
love is just an extension of our own self-awareness. It is cultural.
i dunno what that has to do with anything..
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Re: intelligent design or evolution? [Re: haunted]
#2993523 - 08/11/04 10:25 PM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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"before it happens the probability of it happening is 0% (pre-probability)"
What? That would mean the total probability of every possible action is 0%.
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Re: intelligent design or evolution? [Re: tak]
#2994208 - 08/12/04 12:46 AM (19 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well this always seems absurd to me.
OK Imagine an "intelligence" controlling our entire universe.
Where does this intelligence exist?
This seems similar to a pitri-dish experiment IMO... Like I can control everything that goes on in this pitri dish, essentially being its "god" or "creator" or "deity" or whatever.... That still doesn't mean though that I am in control of EVERYTHING. I'm still sitting there in front of the world I've created in the pitri dish wondering "how the fuck did I get here? what the fuck is going on?"
If there is some kind of intelligence controlling all that we know, that doesn't mean that "everything" or "the universe" is under its control, because IMO that's impossible. Its still sitting there in front of its pitri dish going "wow this experiment sure is neat, but how the fuck did I get here and what the fuck is going on?"
There's always a "step back" that can be taken IMO. An "infinite" universe means to me that nothing is ever under complete control over ALL OF IT, because they are part of it too and how could one create one's SELF?
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