entropy – TheCommonAtheist

If you could experience the world in all its complexity (had a transparent, unfiltered view into the real world) there would be no limit to the upward bounds of entropy. It would be you and you it. Biological life evolved as a subcategory of the world, not the world. Evolution favors fitness and reproduction, not truth. If you could see it all you would blend into an entropic trip with no barriers to keep your form intact.

Imagen being placed in a full body suit covered in sensors wired to your brain. Adapting to this view of the world would seem difficult at first, but doable. This is how you were born. Evolution has hidden most of the real world from us. Our sensors implanted on our barriers tell us things about the world, but they are not the world. It’s what the world looks like through our console, but it isn’t physical. Physical is what we experience when the wave form collapses. Until then it is a state of superposition.

Unable to see beyond the limits of our Markov suit (our biology) we would feel our way around. We could know what things seem like without coming into direct contact with them. This would be like “reality” even though direct contact with the world as it is would be as impossible as it is necessary to have a form. We would be walking and driving by instrumentation. Our internal dashboard would give us clues about the real world, but the readings on our console are not the real world as it is.

We create the physical world by observing it. This is god. Until it is observed it is not physical, but in a quantum state of potential.

Science is the study of natures behavior, not what nature is.

The Christian apologetic that the second Law of thermodynamics makes evolution impossible? Entropy does not overtake us because the universe is not physical—it is mental. At the core of existence we find no material. What are we then and why?

If god created the world out of nothing, why is there still nothing?

There is nothing about physicality that reduces to mentality. The hard problem of consciousness is a physicalist problem which introduces dualism—Bernardo Kastrup. Yet even a staunch atheist feels like they have a body, not that they are a body.

Reductionism promised to find the emergent particles that create consciousness. They have found no evidence whatsoever for this hypothesis.

The absurdity of materialism— we have reached the resolution of the interface itself. If you look closer you only see bigger pixels. Or they disappear altogether while looking in between them.

The energy contained in a cubic meter of space is enough to boil all the oceans,—Richard Feynman, yet here we are existing quite nicely in the middle of it. How can that be if we are made of real matter as entities who are separate from it?

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