(2020-11-16, 08:47 PM)Kamarling Wrote: The two examples of this which stand out for me are:
1). The Fine Tuning debate.
2). The Origin of Life debate.
Both have physicalists grasping at ridiculously flimsy straws.
What surprises me about Fine Tuning is that the stuff physicist Bernard Haisch talks about in support of Idealism doesn't often rate a mention, namely things like 4 out of 100 photons bounce back rather than pass through a window.
That to me is mind boggling, and every time I think about how there's no way of knowing which 4, only 4:100 on average, it makes me think there's a Consciousness involved. That plus the usual stuff about finely tuned constants would, IMO, convince most neutral laypersons that *something* is going on. Maybe no[t] "God" in the usual sense, maybe the Simulation Hypothesis...but something odd for sure...
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
(This post was last modified: 2020-11-17, 03:41 AM by Sciborg_S_Patel.)
- Bertrand Russell
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