Comments on: Interviewing the astral Albert Einstein about free will

By: alfons

alfons — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:54:50 +0000

Dear Jon,
What would you have replied, if Albert would have brought in the concept of emergence* and how would you have solved the mind-body-problem?

*:At the moment biologists believe to have an idea about how life developt from dead matter. This could be seen as a phonmena of emergence:
simple particules => complex organisation => life => more complex organisation => “consiousness” (or something that feels like it)

I believe that materialism and determinism is not a illogical concept. To be honest I even used to be very sure that we live in a mechanistic-materialistic determinism. I also liked and enjoyed this worldview a lot.
I’m quite far from sure now. The fact that prevailant interpretations of quantum physics could in my opinon solve the mind-body-problem, was just one contribution to my ever increasing doubt. But still I cannot reject this worldview as illogical.

By: OzzieThinker

OzzieThinker — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 03:36:35 +0000

Nice piece, Jon, but can I add something to “throw the cat amongst the pigeons”. What if particles and the product, inanimate matter, was intelligent but we didn’t understand it? What if man’s introspective judgmental oversimplification of existence and life was almost entirely implausible from the macro-perspective?

For the “evolutionists”; improvement is meant to “randomly” occur through the selection of good gene stock (or, rather, by “filtering out” bad genes). However, if the process was truly ‘random’ wouldn’t the genetic potential be somewhere between zero and absolute for each new cycle?

By: ignasiorobitggene

ignasiorobitggene — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 16:54:59 +0000

Mentres llegia la Teva entrevista estaba pensan en les ones del mar, ja veus,les mateixes molecules,mes o menys,però cap de iguala en la mateixa platja,o en qualsevol platja,o en qualsevol temps passat. Ànims,encantat de llegir-lo.Que tingui un dia agradable amb moltes rialles.

By: Nelson Warner

Nelson Warner — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 14:17:04 +0000

Thank you.

By: BDev

BDev — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 02:21:40 +0000

Excellent, Jon! Most enjoyable. You have a great knack for exposing/explaining the obvious.

Once we each see the whole stage, and our personal script for what it is, then the Game is apparent. Now, instead of taking things ‘seriously’ and working inside the sphere of fear, we each can come out of the closet and take on things directly… a premise you stated well in the Zen article. Once we know without a shadow of a doubt that we each have absolutely nothing to fear because we each have nothing to lose, we can have boisterous, belligerent fun with the monstrous bs happening on this planet. Calling spades, spades, and calling out the slimy fear-covered sycophants never felt so gratifying.

Hell, one day we may even hit critical mass and chain reaction, thanks in part to Mr. Einstein.