Emergent properties, such as the fact that Life is inherent in the structure and combination of subatomic particles that make up this physical universe. And consciousness is inherent in the material chains encoding information and informational flows that make up Life.
I am not sure emergent properties get you off the hook about the "No prime creators, no invisible hands, nothing immaterial" stuff. The question of eternal simultaneity vs perceived time (even Einstein felt time could run multiple directions) with all of its corresponding philosophical conundrums and the problem of existence as opposed to non-existential void both seem to hint at additional dimensions or "hidden structure" that we can't yet understand. I guess if you want to deify anything, Life and Consciousness are as nice a focus as any. It sure beats killing in the name of this or that fundamentalist brain-warp...
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Date: 2005-03-31 06:02 am (UTC)Emergent properties, such as the fact that Life is inherent in the structure and combination of subatomic particles that make up this physical universe. And consciousness is inherent in the material chains encoding information and informational flows that make up Life.
I am not sure emergent properties get you off the hook about the "No prime creators, no invisible hands, nothing immaterial" stuff. The question of eternal simultaneity vs perceived time (even Einstein felt time could run multiple directions) with all of its corresponding philosophical conundrums and the problem of existence as opposed to non-existential void both seem to hint at additional dimensions or "hidden structure" that we can't yet understand. I guess if you want to deify anything, Life and Consciousness are as nice a focus as any. It sure beats killing in the name of this or that fundamentalist brain-warp...