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Fancy words to say there is a grand designer. I don’t buy it. Always at the edge of human understanding we say “well we don’t understand that, so there must b
by andrewstuart 3y ago
Fancy words to say there is a grand designer.
I don’t buy it.
Always at the edge of human understanding we say “well we don’t understand that, so there must be a man behind the curtain”.
- panda-giddiness 3y agoTegmark proposes no such thing; indeed, he may as well be proposing the exact opposite of what you claimed. He is essentially suggesting that all mathematical structures are "real", which would explain why the universe exists at all -- presumably because it is also a mathematical structure.
- telmo 3y agoThen it would be the "grand designer" hypothesis, wouldn't it? I notice that the big unspoken resistance to metaphysics these days is the fear that it is somehow a trick to smuggle God back into our understanding of reality. This fear can become excessive, and carry the unsavory and perhaps ironic side-effect of turning physicalism into a God that cannot be questioned.
- antonvs 3y agoI've noticed that as well. I do think it tends to compromise thinking on the subject of consciousness, because it basically creates a space of questions one must not ask, taboo topics.