A New View Of Reality : The Universe As A Conscious Computer

It is said that man, to survive, has always needed something or some belief to hold on; be it science, religion or magic. Man without a belief lacks hope (Walker, 1997). Lack of hope makes a man vulnerable to unforeseen circumstances. To avoid this vulnerability man has been holding onto different belief systems.

From the beginning of modern age of philosophy, there has been an argument whether or not religion and science can work together and not in conflict. At the beginning of this discussion is faith and human reason. In Measure for Measure, both Isabella and Angelo display this across a variety of scenarios, including both the good and bad side of this balancing act of beliefs. The decisions that they make put both faith and reason into consideration. Both Isabella and Angelo show that they sway one way or the other on each decision, showing the true unity these vastly different concepts share.

Everyone is made of atoms correct? Well Quantum physics now shows that atoms are made from small waves of energy! In fact everything in this universe, including the universe itself, is pure energy! So how does that help you? This helps you because knowing that everything is energy, you can now see that every single thought you have is pure energy that helps create the things you

In the construction of the Large Hardon Collider, physicists seek and hope to unlock the mysteries of the universe by analyzing the attributes of the most miniscule particles known to man. In the same way, theologians have argued back and forth over the course of human history with regards to the divine attributes of God, seeking and hoping to unlock the mysteries of the metaphysical universe. Although these many attributes, for example omnipresence, could be debated and dissected ad nauseum, it is within the scope of this research paper to focus but on one of them. Of these many divine attributes of God, nothing strikes me as more intriguing than that of God’s omnipotence. It is intriguing to me because the exploration of

Neil Degrasse Tyson points out in his article “Cosmic Perspective”, first published in the Natural Magazine in 2007, that if every human were to truly comprehend how stupendous and interraled the universe is to us, our perspective on humanity would shift from a focus on our distinctions to our connections. Tyson explores through many examples of the “cosmic perspective” to prove just how closely associated we are with the universe.

In time, quantum discoveries led to a changing mindset about the world and this made it necessary for religious thinkers to cope with it. It could be part of the reason John Polkinghorne went into the priesthood. Some of these ideas affect religious beliefs, mostly the rigidity known to fix religious beliefs once learned. Polkinghorne never abandoned the search for truth, and he did not move away from the rational pursuit of it, but theology had to follow its own kind of discourse in the quantum world. He compared the concept of the duality of the wave/particle phenomenon to the idea of duality of Jesus Christ being truly human and truly divine. While the Newtonian world is “clear and orderly”, the quantum world is based on the uncertainty principle explained by Heisenberg, and it is “cloudy and fitful” and counterintuitive. A different kind of quantum logic has to apply in the quantum world. So, Polkinghorne says science and theology both require a rational strategy and what he calls ‘bottom-up theory,’ and move from reliance on experience to the attainment of what he calls “well-motivated belief and understanding.” Relying on a “top-down approach is not preferred as it is based on the hope that one has prior access to clear and certain general ideas from which one can then descend to the consideration of the particularities of experience.” He is very strong on the argument that belief must be well-motivated. It is after this discussion that he says he holds a “passionate belief in the unity of

In order to discover how the cosmos works, humanist believe that “observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against evidence has the best track record” (Fry, “That’s Humanism!”).

Our universe had to have been designed for a purpose. Even Isaac Newton believed that the solar system appeared too awesome to have emerged merely from the action of blind forces. For many scientists it was too much to assume that the artful and harmonious organization of nature could be the result of chance. This point of view was articulated by Irish physicist, chemist, and philosopher Robert Boyle – “The excellent contrivance of that great system of the world, and especially the curious fabric of the bodies of the animals and the uses of their sensories and other parts, have been made the great motives that in all ages and nations induced philosophers to acknowledge a Deity as the author of these admirable structures” (Davies, p.

What is reality? Is it something that shapes us and alters our entire life and everything around us or is reality something that we create? That’s a question that puzzles a lot of us but one guy in particular was puzzled a lot. His name was Thomas Young and he discovered that the laws of quantum mechanics can sometimes be altered just by looking at them. In this essay I talk about how Young devised and executed an experiment that was very interesting because it made discoveries in light waves, particle duality, and what reality is.

This book, which examines the physical basis of life, forms a part of the same mid-twentieth century information revolution as Claude Shannon's information theory, Norbert Wiener's cybernetics and John von Neumann's automata theory. It first asks, why atoms are so small compared to a human, or alternatively, why humans are so large compared to an atom, and answers that in a much smaller being quantum randomness and atomic discreteness (the analog of shot noise in electronics) would destroy life-giving processes. This may be true; however, the order of magnitude of size of human beings is a product of contingent events in the history of life on Earth; it does not follow from the first principles. A snake kills its victims with toxins and digests

Supernatural and spiritual reasoning regarding the physical properties of the universe are often discredited because they lack sufficient evidence or overlook natural laws. However, many people still rely on these ideologies as a doctrine governing their lives and world. Alternatively, the world has shifted towards naturalism – a practice which follows the physical properties of the world – due to an advancement in scientific inquiry and technology. Carl Sagan, author of The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, claims that naturalism is the only reasonable framework to accurately describe physical properties of the world. Sagan’s claim is valid due to the self-correcting mechanisms found within naturalism that produce evidence with certainty.

The scientists have wondered for many years how was the universe created and how we came up to exist in it and maybe now the answers will be found. According to this new research, we are probably similar in spirit and substance as everything else in the universe and there might be proto consciousness in the universe.

In Wicca is often invoked for religious rituals, to find the way to spiritual knowledge.

Since the dawn of mankind religion has been one of the most significant elements of a society’s social and cultural beliefs and actions. However, this trend has declined due to the general increase in knowledge regarding our the natural sciences. Where we had previously attributed something that we didn’t understand to the working of a higher power, is now replaced by a simple explanation offered by natural sciences. While advocates of Religion may question Natural Sciences by stating that they are based on assumptions, it is important to note the Natural Sciences are based on theories and principles which can be proven using mathematical equations and formulas. Faith however contrasts from the easily visible feasibility of data

ABSTRACT: Curiously, in the late twentieth century, even agnostic cosmologists like Stephen Hawking—who is often compared with Einstein—pose metascientific questions concerning a Creator and the cosmos, which science per se is unable to answer. Modern science of the brain, e.g. Roger Penrose's Shadows of the Mind (1994), is only beginning to explore the relationship between the brain and the mind-the physiological and the epistemic. Galileo thought that God's two books-Nature and the Word-cannot be in conflict, since both have a common author: God. This entails, inter alia, that science and faith are to two roads to the Creator-God. David Granby recalls that once upon a time,