Embrace the Horror, Starring Dr. Werner Heisenberg

[Battlehymn Republic]

A treatise on quantum mechanics, with a cameo by the FSM. Happy Halloween!

[Rye]

Yeah, descent into nihilism is only scary the first time you do it. You have to understand that "why" presupposes causality and inherent meaning and potential for understanding, but why presuppose that? Why ask why? I win.

[Battlehymn Republic]

No one else is interested at all? Comments?

[Zero]

This is just affirming something I already knew: That any worldview is based in several initial assumptions. The "it just is!" is something that applies to his own philosophy. In all honesty, it is absolutely impossible for practical purposes to prove that the universe, your observations of it, your memories of it, or any of that is real. You can't prove the universe is real without using the universe to prove it as such. By the logic of using no "it just is" statements, this fellow ought to be a solipsist. Of course, by the logic of "it just is," he shouldn't even apply logic at all, but I won't go into that. But it was still a funny read.

[McC]

Ah, good old particle predetermination. Gotta love it. Good find.

[Cykeisme]

I was about fifteen or so, with only a very base understanding of physics, when the idea that all the phenomenon in the universe, therefore including the human brain itself, are composed of little more than the interaction of particles of matter and energy. The mind, therefore, must be simply a projection of the electrochemical activities in the brain, and conscious decision wasn't. For every set of given inputs, a given brain would give you a set of outputs, and that was what people were.

I didn't get up to the point of looking at everything as being predetermined, but I guess this is something along the same line, right?