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20080115
Cosmogony Loses It
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
How long before the NYT finally realizes that it is riding the wrong horse?
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I see no problem with the article. It's a relatively balanced account offering multiple interpretations of an assorted variety of professionals in the field of astrophysics. It's a healthy "univironment" for intellectual discussion, since it raises numerous possibilities and leaves no easy answers. It creates countless hypotheses, many of which can be tested experimentally (if not now, at least some time in the future).
ReplyDeleteWow! You don't see a problem with naked brains running around the universe! Good luck with that! The "multiple" interpretations you see in the NYT definitely are "healthy" for religion, but definitely not for science. The article just shows how the indeterministic logic underlying the BBT leads to the craziest ideas that only an idealist could love.
ReplyDeleteYou seem to be falling victim to your own demons. "Religion" has many definitions, but what distinguishes it from simply "spirituality" is dogma, a canon of beliefs that cannot be questioned.
ReplyDeleteScience differs from religion, not so much by assertions, but by approach. In science, it is acceptable to assert anything... provided there is evidence. The "naked brains" idea is no doubt weird, but then again, so is a universe that goes on forever and ever. At least a naked brain can be imagined. I can't imagine "forever," because it is not a finite conception, and the mind only deals in finitudes.
Multiple interpretations are the food of science. Multiple interpretations are made, evidence accumulates, and eventually only one approach seems valid. Nevertheless, as more knowledge is accumulated, that one idea will itself divide into a new multiplicity, which must then undergo the same procedures of correction.
There is no dogma in science. Even your own, rather unusual scientific philosophy asserts the primacy of uncertainty.
Naked brains are possible. You haven't considered that there may be regions of the universe (which you claim is infinite) that support that kind of organization of microcosms. Maybe not here, but maybe many lightyears away.