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> How could Turing have thought this? I don’t know much about Turing but it does seem, when reading old-time literature, that belief in the supernatural was pre
by pfisherman 4y ago
> How could Turing have thought this? I don’t know much about Turing but it does seem, when reading old-time literature, that belief in the supernatural was pretty common back then, lots of mention of ghosts etc.
I think that today we overestimate how much we know, and discount the existence of “supernatural” phenomena that we don’t fit into our model of the universe.
Karma (or something like it) is a thing that probably exists; but we do not have the necessary concepts or tools to qualitatively or quantitatively describe how it works.
- bobthechef 4y agoI'm not sure what you mean by karma in this case, but I wanted to note that the word "supernatural" is very often misused. Once you start prodding people about what they mean by "supernatural", you quickly discover that they don't know what "natural" or "physical/material" mean, much less what "supernatural" means, and the whole conversation descends into grumbling. Here's one definition of "supernatural order" [0]. [0] https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14336b.htm https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14336b.htm
- CyberDildonics 4y agoThe only reason to believe that karma exists is that we have an emotional desire for it to exist.