Multi-Dimensional Experiences
Feel free to move this if I chose the wrong category to put this in.
I woke up this morning with a weird thought banging around in my head. Its a "what if" and I'd like to know your general thoughts on it.
"Geordie Rose, Founder of D-Wave (recent clients are Google and NASA) believes that the power of quantum computing is that we can `exploit parallel universes’..."
We are the result of our genetics and biology. Some have an easier time of life than others. Some people have a biology that gear them for optimism while others are born nihilists. Some are born into unimaginable hell and die too young to be cognizant of anything but pain. People have the belief systems they were born into, for the most part, cultural or otherwise. It is very unlikely that one strays too far from where they started, especially before the time of the internet.
From the Christian perspective:
According to super-string theory, there are at least 10 dimensions in the universe and other theories suggest there could be up to 26 dimensions. What if we are all living out our lives in multiple dimensions, all at once, linked somehow through a cosmic id. What if the cumulative results of all our choices from multiple universes is the determinate of what gets us into heaven or hell? Free will is assumed to true ...
I woke up this morning with a weird thought banging around in my head. Its a "what if" and I'd like to know your general thoughts on it.
"Geordie Rose, Founder of D-Wave (recent clients are Google and NASA) believes that the power of quantum computing is that we can `exploit parallel universes’..."
We are the result of our genetics and biology. Some have an easier time of life than others. Some people have a biology that gear them for optimism while others are born nihilists. Some are born into unimaginable hell and die too young to be cognizant of anything but pain. People have the belief systems they were born into, for the most part, cultural or otherwise. It is very unlikely that one strays too far from where they started, especially before the time of the internet.
From the Christian perspective:
According to super-string theory, there are at least 10 dimensions in the universe and other theories suggest there could be up to 26 dimensions. What if we are all living out our lives in multiple dimensions, all at once, linked somehow through a cosmic id. What if the cumulative results of all our choices from multiple universes is the determinate of what gets us into heaven or hell? Free will is assumed to true ...
Comments (12)
No such thing as "parallel universes" except for SciFi (which too many scientists unfortunately like to engage in as if it's science). So that's not going to work.
Quoting Michelle71
This is the problem of the world - it is not perfect and horrid stuff happens. But things get better with time. I think we are unfortunate to be born in such a barbaric time of the universe - it tends towards perfection.
Quoting Terrapin Station
Proof please...
You've got to be joking.
If we judge what is possible just based on our experience of this universe then we miss a huge realm of possibility. How do we know that other states of existence beyond space, time, matter are not possible?
Already something pretty freaky has happened: there is something rather than nothing. So I like to keep an open mind on these things... hence asking you to proof parallel universes are not possible.
First, this is such a basic thing to get wrong.
If we say, "There is no such thing as x," are we saying, "X is impossible"?
I don't think it's the biology that determines that.
You could acquire a sum of great biological features and yet your psyche may be incapable to profit from them; whereas a great psyche would find a good use for poor quality biological features.
Examples are blind photographers and deaf composers.
Quoting Michelle71
If we go with the aforementioned division of biological self (body) and cognitive self (psyche), we are indeed living in multiple dimensions, all at once.
A brain without a mind is like hardware without software; just a heap of parts.
Equally, a mind without an object to represent it is like air; like wind.
If you had to point out the mind anywhere in the physical world, where would it be?
There's a difference between "it's not possible for there to be any x" and "there happen to be no x (but it's not impossible)"
So the point I was making immediately above is that you read my initial comment to be about possibility rather than what's contingently the case.