Don't be ridiculous. If I swing a club at your head, and you see it coming, you'll duck or flinch or throw up an arm to obstruct it. For very many situations, you, oh member of "the blob", are perfectly predictable.

solipsist.

Again...solipsist...

Newtonian physics is wrong, and easily shown to be so. More properly, Newtonian physics is a special case that appears right within a certain range of mass and velocity.

Ah, the dimensions BS, well have to comment on it:

Three "dimensions" are the minimum number of dimensions needed to define any object. You can define as many dimensions as you want, but it seems these quantum physics guys like to let ideas run away with their brains.

I hope they find that God particle already, and then we can start finally end the separation of science and religion.

Debating with a solipsist is a waste of time.

You don't really exist, you see.

What if I'm superman ?

Newtonian physics as a theory is correct. The equations are approximations.

Actually I'm not solipsist. The mind only mirrors the universe that it interacts with, and can change it within itself. The universe exists, the mind exists.

Can I read "Matrix" in there?

No, that's one of many reasons I'm divorced.

Hi

When I spoke about God, I was not refering to the "Traditional" Idea of God...

I am atheist also, in the extent that I am Pantheist... for me God is "The Framework", "The Matrix"...

and this "Matrix" or "Framework" has some "inner works" which ar not directly accessible to our perception...

from whatever we grasp from our observation of what surrounds us, we assemble similar invariant features in Laws, asbtract Laws, like those of Math, or more concrete laws, like those of Physics.

So, Math and Physics are not really "our" creation... the form by which we comunicate them with our similars is captive to our own forms of expression, Math Language for instance... and that code is ours, but the reality it pertains about is not since it was here way before the ocurrence of life on Earth..., but some other alien Intelligence, with the ability to infer from obserevation may reach similat findings which would be "Invariant" under a "code of expression" transformation ( because they would be about the same reality )

It is this Reality that I called God

Light behaves both as a wave and as a particle. Checkmate.

You continually present assertions which have long since been shown to be false, along with the repeated observation (expressed in several different forms) that "this is what I believe and only what I believe matters".

You also continually shift the ground and the basis for discussion when you are presented with something that shows you wrong which you cannot challenge (aka: pettifogging). Thus, you say that "quantum mechanics is wrong" and when challenged about your using a quantum mechanical device to make that assertion, you respond that "quantum mechanics isn't complete" or "quantum mechanics isn't fundamental" or "quantum mechanics has problems" - not one of which supports "quantum mechanics is wrong".

Several possibilities suggest themselves, and the kindest interpretation is that you are a solipsist. Alternatives include an intensely rigid personality that cannot learn, or a person of low IQ. I offer no opinion on the second possibility and the latter possibility is not consistent with how you write.

In no case does any of this suggest that discussing with you is worthwhile.

I did not really understood ( or maybe i did... ) that statement... :

I was expressing an opinion on a matter being discussed in this thread, so until further notice, I exist as much as everyone in this thread exists... Dinithion or you for instance...


I was not the only one debating with an alledgedly "solipsist" ... IMHO.

Very possibly. I certainly wouldn't rule it out.

Not to the solipsist you don't.


True enough.

I had always been wondering if there was a serious scientific field like this. I've sort of rationalized with myself that our "free will" comes from the inherent quantum noise that is present in all particles of the universe, whether they're part of a living being or not, thus giving multiple possible outcomes for every(!) quantum event that occurs in your brain. Thanks for giving me some hope that there's real substance to that idea.

I think this is really starting to touch on how I view the world: I do see us as *being* "god" or whatever you want to call it ("god" is overused and overly associated with religion IMO), and that we're all somehow interconnected, be it though something metaphysical, or some physical law of nature, or whatever...

I take it what you're suggesting here is that we do have (true) freedom, but only within the boundaries of our universe...I suppose that kind of works for me...maybe. :-S

Anyways, I didn't know I was going to spark such debate over this. Although I guess I shouldn't be surprised; it's a deep topic for most people! Myself especially.

Some interesting viewpoints from all of you (even if some of your statements make me shudder a little).

XKCD on the meaning of life

Edited to fix the link

LOL, there are a few xkcd's about life and existentialism. There's actually a recurring character IIRC who is having existential angst(?), although not the same kind I'm having.

This is another one that comes to mind.

(your link's not quite right, btw. there's a " at the end and that makes it return a 404)