A ghost in the machine?

PuerAzaelis February 28, 2020 at 17:03 925 views 1 comments

Indeed, in a year from now, ninety-eight percent of the atoms in your body will have been replaced, meaning that you are indeed word-made-flesh, a transcendent pattern of accumulated information, not the transient material which makes a fleeting home under the organizing principle of your unrepeatable genetic logo.

One Cosmos Under God: The Unification of Matter, Life, Mind, and Spirit, Robert W. Godwin

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PuerAzaelis February 28, 2020 at 17:36 #386939 0 likes

In pondering the behavior of our complex, law-abiding universe, it is as if we were watching a group of people running around randomly, and suddenly a baseball game emerges, with no one on the field conscious of the rules they are now playing under. And, just as in a baseball game, where we don’t see basketball games or soccer matches break out on the fringes of the field, the universe seems somehow to “hold together” and play by the same rules across its great expanse (or so it is assumed by science). Why should everything in the universe be subject to constant change except these immaterial laws—laws of physics, laws of chemistry? “There must,” says Roger Penrose, “be some underlying reason for the accord between mathematics and physics, i.e., between Plato’s world and the physical world." But no one—not scientists, not theologians—seems to have a clue as to why this should be so.

One Cosmos Under God: The Unification of Matter, Life, Mind, and Spirit, Robert W. Godwin