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Is the universe information-rich?
Can we study meaninglessness and get meaning out of it?
Can we study meaninglessness and get meaning out of it?
@kellyjay saidOkay, I've heard you use this term zillions of times in this forum.
Is the universe information-rich?
Can we study meaninglessness and get meaning out of it?
@pettytalk saidNot due to me, there is a very huge common villain to many here, so any possibility He may be acknowledged as real causes a united front. Because acknowledging God would change absolutely everything in the universe, so it is not a little thing, making it completely understandable.
KellyJay is a miracle worker. Alone he manages to bring together fierce opposing dueling forces.
@kellyjay saidYou "acknowledging" the God that you just so happen to believe in may well affect how you perceive the universe but doing so would not alter what it is we know and don't know about it.
Because acknowledging God would change absolutely everything in the universe, so it is not a little thing, making it completely understandable.
@suzianne saidA mindless process has no creative power to build something functionally complex, or even to preform something not functional but very specific where probabilities are largely stacked against it.
Okay, I've heard you use this term zillions of times in this forum.
What, exactly, do you mean by this term, 'meaninglessness', and what does it represent for you?
I'm thinking the term itself has no meaning.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidSo you believe in meaning in the universe?
Your questions are meaningless. (Not the universe).
@moonbus saidI think there is a lot to that, we all may not see what another person does. Do you think we can impart meaning to another?
Meaning, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
@kellyjay saidDo you want people to subscribe to the "meaning" and "narrative" that you have settled for?
A mindless process has no creative power to build something functionally complex, or even to preform something not functional but very specific where probabilities are largely stacked against it.
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