Bookworm on Apr 01 2009 at 4:38 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
God? A pregnant body doing a little extra repair work? Modern medicine? Random luck? Who knows. But, as the Anchoress explains, something miraculous happened.
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[...] they all agreed that the diagnosis of anencephaly was correct. They have no explanation as to how she is functioning on a conscious level without a cerebrum, or how she is even alive.
The vast majority of doctors have such a difficult time with humility in the face of reality. “I don’t know” and “I don’t understand” are phrases that cannot pass their lips.
And quantum mechanics physics are the final theory that perfectly describes the nature of the Universe? I will lay everything I own – with total confidence – that quantum mechanics is as incomplete to the theory that follows it as the Bohr atom is incomplete to quantum mechanics.
And we’ll probably exceed the speed of light someday, and it will be done in a manner, and based on theories, we have no conception of today. (Tachyons might or might not be a key…)
Schroedinger’s Cat is *not* a description of a constructible reality. It’s nothing more than a crude attempt to explain quantum mechanics to the layman. As if a macro-entity such as a cat with all of its complex constructions could collapse into or out of concrete reality; let alone hundreds of thousands or millions of other living organisms – alive within the cat. If no aliens are observing the earth at time T, do WEexist? But at time T+1, they peer at us through their telescope from the moon, and then we do exist?
I had a friend who claimed years ago that if no one was directly looking at the moon, then it would collapse into non-concrete existence, into probability waves. He meant: no human. I think that actually came from a pseudo-scientific book; I seem to remember actually reading the claim. Oh, really? No deer bounding through a meadow by moonlight would miss the moonlight? A beetle trundling along, detouring around a pebble in its path, detecting the pebble by moonlight… without the moon, where would the moonlight have come from?
It boggles the mind.
Mike:
Please be careful here.
You remember when we were doing our first bizarro experiments how we warped the woof of reality? The Republican senator who was a conservative? The feminist who had vaginal orgasms? The Marxist who showed up for work on time?
We came away from those shaken and stirred, vowing to never again to play the role of gods.
By the way, what ever happened to that awful cat?
That poor cat got tired of being stepped on and tripped on, so it escaped into the kitchen and wiggled its way into a cupboard, letting the door close behind it.
Unfortunately, the only other stuff in the cupboard was a Geiger counter, a tiny bit of radioactive substance, and a hammer that was set to maybe shatter a small flask of hydrocyanic acid.
Now the whole family is terrified of opening the cupboard, and they’re all seeking psychiatric counseling.
The Republican senator who was a conservative? The feminist who had vaginal orgasms? The Marxist who showed up for work on time?
Charles, we’re talking probability waves here. None of those outcomes is even possible! Except for the feminist, but she’d have to be fantasizing about Che Guevara.
One of the reasons I was against Terri Schiavo’s execution was because I valued humility more than I valued pride. I valued ignorance more than I valued wisdom, since you have a lot more ignorance than you have wisdom, so you might as well make use of an abundant resource.
The others, the “Libertarians”, some of the AYn Rand egotist disciples, and the various Leftist wannabe mass murderers, they disagreed. They said “go ahead”. They didn’t care for the consequences in so much as the consequences were permanently out of their sight and care.
And do you want to know why? Because they were certain. They were confident. They were assured of the correctness of their own self-righteousness.
They were not afraid of themselves, only of us, we who would tell them that ignorance is more abundant than wisdom, and thus should be valued more than the self-acclaimed proclamations of “we be wise” and “we be smart”.
They had no doubts, for they refuse to doubt themselves, those little narcissistic wannabe mass murderers.
They had full confidence in the correctness and the wisdom of their actions.
They were certain. They were wise. They knew it all.
They lacked humility, jacked up on their steroids and mental masturbation from Leftist and self-aggrandizement philosophies.
All they knew was their fear, but it was not fear of themselves or fear that their actions would be mistakes. No, it was always fear of us, fear that we would STOP them from making the right decisions, fear that we would prevent them from making any decisions at all, for they believe it is their right to dictate the lives and deaths of others even when ignorant.