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Exactly. At the end of the day science is all about “How” although some scientists being human, understandably do sometimes wade into the “Why” end of it. Scien
by cfadvan 8y ago
Exactly. At the end of the day science is all about “How” although some scientists being human, understandably do sometimes wade into the “Why” end of it. Science is great at delving into how something works, without bothering with a “why” and nowhere is that better expressed than in Langrangian formulations.
When people try to inject Why into science, they’re missing the point, and the same is true of trying to inject How into religion.
- monktastic1 8y agoIt's also possible that there is a meaningful "why." From the perspective of mystical traditions, apparently physical reality is an expression of God's mind. Why God is having this particular dream can then be answered meaningfully, by entering into direct gnosis -- because you are, after all, Him. The hard part is testing this objectively. In a lucid dream, you might understand why the Dreamer is generating this particular setup, but until you can demonstrate it to the satisfaction of others in the dream, it's not very useful to them.
- cfadvan 8y agoIt’s possible that there is a god or something similar, but it’s not possible, as you say, to test it (at least not in the foreseeable future) in a meaningful way. We just don’t know, and have no way or knowing. Anyone can float a view from dreaming gods, through gnostic concepts, to simulated reality, and we have no evidence for or against and no real hope of finding such evidence.
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