Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
On the notion of Afterlife.
So no chance of 'another' life ? Well, examine these theories that feed the possibility.
Nick Bostrom, Oxford professor and philosopher, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, known for his paper 'The Simulation Argument' . The argument postulates the possibility (a rather high one) that we may be living in the likeness of a computer simulation, controlled from another dimensional level,when asked about certain implication of the simulation hypothesis, here is what he had to say : " The last section of the original paper speculated about certain parallels that could be drawn between traditional religious conceptions and our relations to our hypothetical simulators. These simulators would have created our world, they would be able to monitor everything that happens here, and they would be able to intervene in ways that conflict with the simulated default laws of nature. Moreover, they would presumably be superintelligent (in order to be able to create such a simulation in the first place). An afterlife in a different simulation or at a different level of reality after death-in-the-simulation would be a real possibility. It is even conceivable that the simulators might reward or punish their simulated creatures based to how they behave, perhaps according to familiar moral or religious norms (a possibility that gains a little bit of credibility from the possibility that the simulators might be the descendants of earlier humans who recognized these norms). "
In that analogy, death is nothing but a transfer from one simulated existence to another, and we are but characters, downloaded from one existence , ending our presence in it, only to be uploaded to another, to continue the existential progression.
Similarly, The Dream Argument , which eventually leads to the query : How do you distinsguish a dream from reality, as Rene Descartes puts it "there are no certain indications by which we may clearly distinguish wakefulness from sleep", given that in a dream all your senses can be fully engaged, and – thus – how do you know that we are not living a dream, and hence 'waking up ' to a new world at our final eye lid closure ?
To be Continued…..
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Did you know ....
- That Isaac Newton wrote more about religion than he did about natural sciences?
- That Max Planck the founder of Quantum Physics was an ardent believer in God, and is quoted to have said " Both Religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the ediface of every generalized world view. "
- That Charles Babbage, the father of programmable machines, was also an ardent believer in God, and wrote a treatise named " On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation"
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
There was once a judge ......
There was once a judge who was trying a relative of his
And there was striking evidence to convict him
But the judge did not want that
He kept saying "Maybe there is something else"
"Maybe it is someone else"
They are just questions to be answered.
And he kept scrapping alternative scenarios
No matter how improbable
And he never submitted
Although it was the truth,
and the just thing to do .
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Admit your limits
Man cannot do whatever he wants, nor get whatever he desires. He can sure work hard to achieve some of his wants, but there are things that are out of bounds regardless of the vigorousness of his pursuit.
We are governed by factors that many are out of our hands. We are governed by our genetics, upbringing, social, physical and cultural environment, and other unplanned events that we experience through out our lives. Man has to employ what is within his control to utilize it along with its surrounding to the best good, but inevitably there maybe things that are out of reach. And at those times he has to be humble enough to say I can't .
Sunday, June 28, 2009
An envious salute
I recently viewed an interview by Charlie Rose summoning Warren Buffet, Bill and Melinda Gates. I was forced by whatever goodness pulsating in me to salute them, albeit with an envious bitterness.
These are examples of people who are – I percieve– at a nobler rank, giving the money that they sweated their foreheads and stormed their brains for to the welfare of other human beings, trying – to their best – to insure their donation is utilized to the best cause and in the most efficient manner towards the benefit of the disadvantaged.
The enviousness comes from my belief that every penny spent in God's cause is eternalized, and these three have poured so much in a major tributary flowing towards His pleasure. So how much will I compete with ? Probably not as much as them…..
How accomplished are we
22, Isaac Newton discovered the generalized binomial theorem
Fairy Tale
One day we'll live the fairy tale
Fly up the skies with nightingales
Flowing like rivers above the seas
Riding the birds, and diving with whales
Up through the clouds
Between the mounts
Around the globe
In rounds and rounds
This is the day that
You have waited for
At last it's found
One day we'll live the fairy tale
Re-unify with who passed away
From all the beauties take off the veil
Let your self loose on a joyous trail
I realize, we've been long in jail
Ecstasy's flowing in my veins
And it only builds up and it gains
Over is the era of the worldy pains
No more, No more, No More
You are now the Lord
Of these green plains
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Some thoughts regarding Hawking's ideas
I recently viewed some of Hawking's lectures and I was stopped by two main propositions he puts out…
- The dilemma of what was before the Big Bang started - which is called upon as an evidence for an initiator by believers in God - is dismantled due to the "No time before Big Bang " notion, therefore it is meaningless to ask what comes before. He relates the paradox to the question of what is south of the south pole ?
- To me, it does'nt interest me much what was before the big bang, but rather what caused, triggered or prompted the explosion ? It had to be another incidence that exists outside our spacetime frame.
- The second proposition is that he compares the expanding universe, to bubbles in boiling water. Some of these bubbles fail growing to a stable size and collapse down, and some succeed in doing so. In that proposal, Hawkings succeeded – perhaps not deliberately – in putting out another proposal : Many big bangs occur, and very few succeed to being a stable universe; a state which only occurs when these bangs initiate at the correct conditions
- To me that is a possibility, but it is just like the one that says that amongst the many, many planets, earth – by chance – had the conditions to survive, and amongst the many, many chemical reactions in the earth's early stages, life – by chance – came to existence. So yes, at least he provided a way in which given belief in extreme improbabilities along with extreme number of chance shots, one can imagine life without intelligent creation. And I believe that convincing people to believe in such extreme improbabilities is the unbelievers best shot, and I believe it is kind of like a quest to try to explain how explosions in a scrap yard - over many years - can lead to the formation of a Boeing 747.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
God - Programmer Analogy
God controls every sub-atomic particle in this existence, he can turn its existence on or off. He can switch any of the physical laws on or off. In doing that he controls all matter and all the laws governing it,
He controls the atoms, molecules, fluids, solids, salt crystals, sand particles, stones, computer chips, apples, goldfish, television, kidneys, rats, humans, elephants, buildings, cars, planes, grass hills, mountains, rivers, clouds, robots, sun's inner core, the milky way, the stars, the supernovae, the entire cosmos.
He holds power over the laws of Newton, conservation of energy, conservation of mass, electromagnetism, nuclear fission and fusions, relativity, thermodynamics, etc…
He holds power in switching what we consider unchangeable rules in biology, chemistry, engineering, medicine, psychology, astronomy, and other sciences.
I would not believe that any person can break God's laws, yet it fits my logic that He; their imposer – whenever He wills – can.
After all it doesn't matter
If you had the money of Rockefeller, it won't matter after you die.
If you had the intelligence of Einstein , it won't matter after you die.
If you had the inventions of Edison, it won't matter after you die.
If you had the ladies of Heffner, it won't matter after you die.
If you had the attraction of Presley, it won't matter after you die.
If you had the power of The Hulk, it won't matter after you die.
If you had the beauty of Monroe, it won't matter after you die.
If you had every worldly desire, it won't matter after death.
All worldly experiences will vanish at death,
Both good and bad ones,
Regardless of their magnitudes,
For you-they end.
And the only thing that matters
Is He, and what relates to Him.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Who is He
He is the author of the story of existence
He is the director of movie of life
He is the artisan behind the scenes of nature
He is the composer of the nature' melodies
He is the computer
He is the programmer
He is the aerospace engineer who designed big birds and flying insects
He is the nuclear engineer who designed the sun
He is the civil engineer who stabilized the continents and designed the 100m tall trees
He is the mechanical engineer who designed all moving organisms
He is the thermal engineer who controls thermal necessities of organic and celestial bodies
He is the electrical engineer who designed our neuronic system
He is the computer scientist who programmed our intelligence
He is the computer engineer of the world's most capable computer; Human brain
He is the physician who created the most vital medicament system, immune system
Quotes from Cosmologists
If the rate of expansion one second after the big bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would have recollapsed before it ever reached its present size.
In its standard form, the big bang theory assumes that all parts of the universe began expanding simultaneously. But how could all the different parts of the universe synchronize the beginning of their expansion? Who gave the command?
The Vow of the Sincere
Vow to seek the Truth all the time.