tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8536671371271256104..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Thinking about Thinking About Religion & ScienceGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14709953347621683662008-04-12T10:21:00.000-07:002008-04-12T10:21:00.000-07:00Thanks for the possibly unintentional book recomme...Thanks for the possibly unintentional book recommendation.<BR/><BR/>I'm more partial to anti-commutative properties, whether in subtraction or Lie algrebra. And speaking of such lies, <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oycE0r_azP8" REL="nofollow">E8 is poetic.</A>AFFAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06974929322142461146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-55563429984937734462008-04-11T22:59:00.000-07:002008-04-11T22:59:00.000-07:00Speaking of tension, it appears as if it may all b...Speaking of tension, it appears as if it may all be infinitely <A HREF="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans%208:29-30;&version=69" REL="nofollow">deeper</A> than we can even begin to comprehend.NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68303641554011948722008-04-11T17:34:00.000-07:002008-04-11T17:34:00.000-07:00late friday off topic fun...I wonder what ol' Barr...late friday off topic fun...<BR/><BR/>I wonder what ol' Barry would think about us raccoons clinging to religion...<BR/><A HREF="http://www.powerlineblog.com/audioclips/ObamaSuicide32.mp3" REL="nofollow">Obama bares his true feelings</A><BR/><BR/>ht. Huffpo and Powerline<BR/><BR/>The comments on the huffpo story are downright frightening.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27483290186481031802008-04-11T12:38:00.000-07:002008-04-11T12:38:00.000-07:00Perhaps because it's in my nature "to get on with ...Perhaps because it's in my nature "to get on with it" and for what it's worth: <BR/><BR/>For me, <A HREF="http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CHPHIL/WUHSING.HTM" REL="nofollow">Wu-hsing,</A>( Wu Xing) for the most part, poetically reconciles the physics/metaphysics conundrum. I have a hunch Schuon [I have no idea if he was aware of the concept] would sympathize with it (I certainly sympathize with Schoun). The link is a very brief, straightforward introduction.QPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15827536245376441948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36102512825203578902008-04-11T10:48:00.000-07:002008-04-11T10:48:00.000-07:00Petey said "Yes, probably a good idea that poets a...Petey said "Yes, probably a good idea that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, not physicists. Unless we recognize the poetry in physics."<BR/><BR/>And then the grooves of science fit with one's theology, otherwise it's ananke.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26501138244609407192008-04-11T10:28:00.000-07:002008-04-11T10:28:00.000-07:00Yes, probably a good idea that poets are the unack...Yes, probably a good idea that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, not physicists. Unless we recognize the poetry in physics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75481754333615614992008-04-11T10:18:00.000-07:002008-04-11T10:18:00.000-07:00Heller's granularity is a little too 'fine' for me...Heller's granularity is a little too 'fine' for me. I have trouble seein' the beaches what with all the sand in my eyes...<BR/><BR/>I understood chaos theory somewhat, but this seems a bit... graduate level.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87455588187205106082008-04-11T09:23:00.000-07:002008-04-11T09:23:00.000-07:00"But when I say "heretical," I mean that they are ..."But when I say "heretical," I mean that they are intrinsically heretical, in that they betray man as such in his function as the Thinking Being. They reduce upright Homo sapiens to a downright Homo sap."<BR/><BR/>ISS!!!<BR/><BR/>(Hellooo... [tap tap tap]... is this thing on?)Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32145709846626322942008-04-11T09:18:00.000-07:002008-04-11T09:18:00.000-07:00" To the contrary, they were intimately familiar w..." To the contrary, they were intimately familiar with the very finest in pagan thought (e.g., Plato), and thought long and hard about how to reconcile revelation and philosophy. "<BR/><BR/>Speaking of which, in a slightly (ok, slightly more than slightly) off topic sort of way, I was reading Plutarch's <A HREF="http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/numa_pom.html" REL="nofollow">Numa Pompilius</A> this morning (yeah... I realy am <I>that</I> weird. Try being that weird <I>and</I> living with teenagers - <I>that</I> makes for some creative tension) - the wise ruler following Romulus, and whom the people had to practically beg to leave his country life to come and rule them, and I was startled to see something that made no impression whatsoever on me when I'd read it years ago:<BR/><BR/>"<I>... conceived of the first principle of being as transcending sense and passion, invisible and incorrupt, and only to be apprehended by abstract intelligence. So Numa forbade the Romans to represent God in the form of man or beast, nor was there any painted or graven image of a deity admitted amongst them for the space of the first hundred and seventy years, all of which time their temples and chapels were kept free and pure from images; to such baser objects they deemed it impious to liken the highest, and all access to God impossible, except by the pure act of the intellect. </I>"<BR/><BR/>Wise is as Wise does, in the egyptian desert or the itallian hills of 5,000 or 3,000 years ago... or now... and its amazing how if you aren't ready for it... you just. don't. see. it. at. all.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81852642757322219492008-04-11T08:57:00.000-07:002008-04-11T08:57:00.000-07:00"Here, I'll just take a sentence at random: "Every..."Here, I'll just take a sentence at random: "Every commutative algebra can be made noncommutative by suitably perturbing it (with a certain perturbation parameter). In light of the above we can say that, from the mathematical point of view, quantum mechanics is but a noncommutative C*-algebra, with the Planck constant playing the role of deformation parameter."<BR/><BR/>But you knew that already."<BR/><BR/>I'm thinking that some thinking about thinking just <I>might have to</I> include "a certain perturbation parameter" to avoid having to walk the Planck... you gno... otherwise the sentence will be noncommutative... or worse, could involve a deformation of your parameter. C?<BR/><BR/>Gulp.<BR/><BR/>;-)Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.com