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More on "God"
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I found the following quote here.

I think Freeman Dyson has it right when he says: "God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension."

Though vague, I am still curious what S&P thinks of this.

Is he implying that God is merely a concept?


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Re: More on "God" [Re: Sclorch]
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How bout this: " God is an extension of my everyday consciousness, i must simply find a way to get closer to him/me, i feel it in my heart that this place of fulfillment really exsists, thats what keeps me going on this sometimes seemingly blind day to day journey "



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Re: More on "God" [Re: ViBrAnT]
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Both of those quotes make my penis tingle.  :laugh:

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Re: More on "God" [Re: Sclorch]
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Is he implying that God is merely a concept?


Only if "mind" is merely a concept too.

But he seems to be implying that the line between God-mind and human-mind depends on the level of our comprehension. That sort of makes sense, I think.

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Re: More on "God" [Re: Rhizoid]
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Well, I think it's an assumption that can be filed under "Unsubstantiated New Age Hooey".

It's weird how dogmatic math-geeks and physicists can be in regards to Singularity, String Theory, and related deterministic concepts. Funny, too, how "believers" damn reason and logic except when it comes to E9 Symmetry, Stephen Hawking & Co., or other math-obsessed scientists. For the record, there is still no proof for any of those charlatans' (who earn lots of $$$ doing "research") Grand Unified Theories etc.


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Re: More on "God" [Re: Sclorch]
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Do you think all those guys should stop doing their "research"?


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Re: More on "God" [Re: Sclorch]
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Moron God?


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Re: More on "God" [Re: Strumpling]
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I believe that god exists because I believe that my mind exists.
What I call god is the positive spectrum of cosciousness, not just human consciousness but all consciousness. This consciousness that we have is as undescribable as the concept of god, yet we know it exists because we are able to loose it. The movie "Altered States" involves this theory in it's plot, it's a really good movie to reflect on. God and Mind are One.


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Lord you know it makes me high when you turn your love my way. Turn your love my waaaaaay, Yea.
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Re: More on "God" [Re: Sclorch]
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It's weird how dogmatic math-geeks and physicists can be in regards to Singularity, String Theory, and related deterministic concepts.


Where did you get the impression that string theory and theories about singularities are deterministic? String theory is just as probabilistic as conventional quantum mechanics, and singularities in gravitation theories allow solutions that can't be completely determined by past events. They are deterministic in the sense that everything can be determined if all boundary conditions are specified, but the problem is that not all boundary conditions are nice enough to stay in the remote past where people expect them to be.

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Re: More on "God" [Re: Sclorch]
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I think Freeman Dyson has it right when he says: "God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension."

Is he implying that God is merely a concept?


No, I believe he is saying God is beond concept so we cannot possibly understand him.


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Re: More on "God" [Re: DailyPot]
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possibly understand him.





Him, na no him, or her, more like it.

Sclorch would be correct that its a concept, or mind set.


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Re: More on "God" [Re: johnnyfive]
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(my two cents)

Generally, god is a way for people to explain the unexplainable. I'm sure you're all aware of this. It's a concept brought to the masses by people wanting to control and instill fear in people without having to threaten them for themselves. In Medevil (sp?) times the church used god as a way to control people - to keep them in line. It's widely known that the roman catholic church has beeen corrupt from the get go, yet people justify the religon by insisting it enspires people to do what's right. Well fuck - you don't need a religon to do that - if you can't decide what's right, then you need a moral workover. Nothing more, nothing less - you shouldn't NEED a figurehead in the sky to fear and pray to when you want something to go your way.

Maybe I'm just jaded from being forced to go to catholic school, or maybe I speak the truth - I'll leave that for you to decide, but no matter how you feel about what I've said, I think we can all agree that those fucking street preachers screaming on the corner of downtown yelling that "YOU'RE GOING TO HELL IF YOU DON'T RENOUNCE YOUR FAITH" are nothing but simple minded individuals that need something more that the every day bohummery the life they've made for themselves here on this fucked up rock we call Earth.


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Re: More on "God" [Re: nubious]
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Shouldn't we have more words for "God"? there are so many contradictory and differing ideas of its meaning...I think the consensus defintion would end up being something like "a consciousness that is more powerful than your mind" - but really, most people mean much more than that when using the word.

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Re: More on "God" [Re: somebodyelse]
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Shouldn't we have more words for "God"? there are so many contradictory and differing ideas of its meaning...


An excellent suggestion. An old pet idea of mine is that we should say "totality" or "universe" instead of "god" when we are talking about the totality of existence. Then we can invent new words for what remains when we subtract various parts. For example, if I subtract only myself, then the remaining part is "the other". If I subtract all of humankind and all human creations, then the remaining part could be called "nature", if you're happy with such an exclusive definition of "nature". And we could go on like this.

Another more old-fashioned approach is of course to define gods as sentient beings that are much more powerful than humans. Science has shown that all of these seem to have been just imaginary creatures, but there is no apriori reason that rules out the existence of such gods somewhere in the universe. Anyway, they should have separate labels.

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The Void [Re: Rhizoid]
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Nothing doesn't including Everything, but Everything must include Nothing by nature.

Does this not prove that there is a more, whole way of viewing everything that is all-incompassing?

What if we put aside all polarized thinking for these whole concepts. There is nothing you cannot break down in physical reality that doesn't have two sides.

A step further might be that bad is not good but good could contain bad, just not perceived from the greater 'whole concept' of good inclusive of the bad.

This says that God may be all good, but all good might include the bad!!!

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Re: The Void [Re: c_mathimatics]
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Nothing doesn't including Everything, but Everything must include Nothing by nature.

Does this not prove that there is a more, whole way of viewing everything that is all-incompassing?


I don't see how "Everything" is lacking in wholeness from this. Could you elaborate please?

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Re: The Void [Re: Rhizoid]
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That was my point. Everything is whole compaired to it's polar opposite, nothing, because it is inclusive of both sides.

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Re: The Void [Re: c_mathimatics]
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OK, I see what you mean. However I think you can avoid the inadequacies of polar opposites by reasoning about complementary parts instead. Example: negative is the polar opposite of positive, but the complementary of positive consists of both negative and neutral.

Hmm, I realized that this is what you just implied :smile:
 

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Re: The Void [Re: c_mathimatics]
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Sclorch, whether or not you believe in what those physicists are doing, it's still important work, with lots to learn. These guys I also believe abandoned determinism when quantum mechanics came along... the uncertainty principle, bla bla bla.


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Re: More on "God" [Re: Sclorch]
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"God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension."

though it's incomplete, I like this definition. it suggests that God is a dynamic concept - as our comprehension expands, so does God.

Is he implying that God is merely a concept?

I think he's implying that God will always remain a concept to humans, because we can never understand it. not "merely" a concept, but so imcomprehensible that it will never truly become "real" to us.


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