@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?
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.
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
If you walked into a room and there were 100 coins on a table all having heads facing up. If I told you I flipped them all, and they each landed on heads in a row, see! Would you believe me or think with intent I set them up. If we were playing cards and I dealt myself 6 royal flushes in a row would you think I was intentionally cheating?
When I tell you I dumped a scrabble box full of letters on the table, and without any one inputting help a sentence formed during the dump that reads,“KELLY IS LEFT HANDED’ Would you believe me?
What is done with intention can overcome heavy odds where random chance and necessity are all that is. We listen to space listening for sounds that carry meaning that random meaningless noise doesn’t make.
A process that has no targets, nothing to give one choice more weight than another with several possibilities will not move into building something functionally complex and build into it instructions. Telling the difference between intent and true mindless should be easy to spot.
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@ghost-of-a-duke saidSo you believe in meaning in the universe?
Your questions are meaningless. (Not the universe).
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@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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