Hangdawg writes:
I would reduce your statement to: we live in a world of mechanisms - unbroken causal chains - computable spaces.
Please don't, if you want to know what I think just ask.
To which I would reply
You don't need me in this conversation do you?
To which I would reply: there could be domains of physics as-yet undiscovered that make a mechanism out of what you call "woo". And also, if something truly new happened, a prime cause, an insertion of a new causal chain, you could not see it looking through the lens of science, because science requires something to be repeatable and testable. Something truly new has not happened before and is either unique or has not been repeated enough to be seen by science.
What probability would you assign to it? Is it something you'd bet your house on or is it a bit of a dream?
IMO, moment by moment experience is "new" and that is why we find ourselves here - to explore the boundary between computable (mechanistic) and non-computable spaces.
I'm beginning to think that fundamental Christianity would have been a better choice for you.
Meaning is a symbolic representation of a goal.
Serious point - please don't tell other people what their meaning is. It's theirs not yours. Fishing is not "a symbolic representation of a goal". It's fishing. Some things are exactly as they are. Most things actually..
We can probably agree on that much
Please don't assume.
I did read the rest, but man, what are you on? It feels like the 70s - is it LSD?
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