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JDaniel
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Sair:
“The sum of our parts?” What does that really mean? Shall we mean that we are the sum of the things that we sense that make up our bodies? Our arms and legs? Our head and face? Our neck and thorax? All of these things added together? And what about what we don’t see? What about what the scientist sees? Molecules and atoms? And what about what Physics postulates? Electrons, protons, quarks? Shall we ignore them? If we are the sum of our parts, then surely we are the sum of these parts, too.
From the perspective of quantum physics and chemistry, these parts MUST be seen for what they are. What we want them to be is what we look out at the moment we open our eyes in the morning. But, that’s nothing but the illusion of reality. Dressers, mirrors, chairs, lamps, shoes, clothes, arms. legs: these are the illusions of reality. If we could actually see these things as they are, what would we see? Their quantum aspects? Perhaps then we might draw better conclusions about reality.
It’s one thing to say that creatures evolve and thereby ‘emerge’ to become what we think they are. It’s quite another thing to understand the quantum aspects of evolved things and know that those things do not evolve. Quantum particles have been the same quantum particles since they were compressed into that singularity. And, they will be the same quantum particles until all of their energy is dissapated. Dimensionless point particles compressed into that which we call the “singularity.” From thence, they expanded and some repelled some quantum parts, while others attracted quantum parts. Like an Alka-seltzer in water, they spread out from their source. And, as these primordial “parts” expanded, all that they found themselves immersed in was continuous space. Not water.
From this disorganized non-liquid soup, aggregations formed by configurations of the dimensionless point particles. All that was added to make what appears to our eyes, was Space, infinite, continuous Space - made discrete from the first moment of that primordial expansion we call the Big Bang.
That is what we perceive with our senses: what appear to be separate bodies, mass, softness and hardness, surfaces that are home to the reflection of this or that photon. Amazing when one considers it all - and that it was there in the primordial universe from the beginning! Including the anthropic fine tuning constants. How strange: that it all began without rhyme or reason, where there was no time, or space-time, where there was nothing like them, or even unlike them, within that initial Now after the absolute first beginning of the expansion of the singularity.
“Scientific evidence,” you mean like physical things?
God bless,
jd
