Cerastes wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 9:27 pm
The Pastafarians will dominate the world one day.
I'll wipe the floor with those mops!
Cerastes wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 9:27 pm
Joke aside, I recently noticed a slight change in the mindset of science regarding occultism.
I feel that the triumphant advance of quantum mechanics has opened natural science a little more for different schools of thought. The idea of a deterministic world is thus refuted, because determinism is no longer mathematically possible in a quantum system; only probabilities can be defined. It is also clear that our “either or” thinking is not only incomplete but incorrect. Recently I heard a lecture of a great physicist who actually quoted Schelling.
It's a little difficult to keep up with all the quickly evolving landscape of science, very broadly speaking, because historical knowledge has largely turned on it's head recently too. It's weird how much has become reality, that was science fiction. Hard science fiction. The reality PKD showed us, was here first. It usually was just fiction, when reading it. Storytelling isn't supposed to be accurate in foretelling. Some of the breakthroughs are even a little banal, because I knew about it twenty years ago, and then when it happens, people seem surprised. This is the future, that was expected. They're even calling FTL space travel warp-drive. Made me laugh when I heard that.
But all that multidimensional quantum stuff is closer to the topic and a lot more difficult, than robots with eye-lasers. Medical science is very close to recognizing the fact, that human consciousness can exit the body, which means it's non-local. The brain is an instrument, that is necessary for consciousness to function in meatspace. That could affect atheism a little bit, because a lot of them seem to think nothing is real except money and meat. It's a little funny, that military intelligence was decades ahead of science, though of course they got the smartest pioneers, working on their secret remote-viewing and psychic spy attempts, which didn't really work out.
Probably some scientists, when reading something mindblowing, like Schelling, think that "this person is smarter than me, could that imply, that some of this crazy shit is real?". There's vast amounts of bullshit around in "academia" and the intellectual stale establishment. The smartest people have to try to talk about something interesting and new, in a way that doesn't make people too nervous. The pioneers are the enemies of pedopriests, like Dawkins.