Comment Re:Cannot be explained (Score 1) 363
I think I understand your point. Please excuse me if I don't.
I would say that something unknowable is possible. But I am not satisfied with that answer.
I am a research scientist in my professional life, and trying to understand and simulate complex phenomena is how I make a living.
Passing this off as something only I, God and maybe another can know is the effective equivalent of the posts I see here that mock the study of unexplained phenomena and having never had an experience like this, these people claim that it does not exist and trying to study it is a waste of time and resources.
Both egocentric and religious zeal have impeded the progress of understanding the world we live in many times throughout history. I hope it does not continue to dominate this area of understanding as it has for so many years.
I will say your idea of using the concept of a demon to understand something is not particularly new. And not without merit. Since in 1867 James Maxwell use the concept of a sorting demon to understand the concept of heat transfer and entropy. As the mechanism of these thermodynamic effects were unknown at the time. They saw something happen, but could not say HOW or WHY it happens.
Good thing that Maxwell and his little demon didn't give up. It took a series of people over many years grappling with the second law of thermodynamics to understand it(Maxwell, Smoluchowski, Einstein, Feynman, Zurek and many others) The demon was born in 1867 and was finally retired around 1992. It took years to understand this and new concepts to be born; Brownian motion, Quantum Mechanics, etc. But people kept at it and eventually understood it.
I hope that is the case for ESP, Precognition, etc... Maybe it is nothing mystical at all... Maybe it is a product of quantum effects on synaptic gaps, maybe some kind of temporal distortion wave, or possibly something only God understands and doesn't want us to know about.
I don't know, but I would love to find out for sure.
I would say that something unknowable is possible. But I am not satisfied with that answer.
I am a research scientist in my professional life, and trying to understand and simulate complex phenomena is how I make a living.
Passing this off as something only I, God and maybe another can know is the effective equivalent of the posts I see here that mock the study of unexplained phenomena and having never had an experience like this, these people claim that it does not exist and trying to study it is a waste of time and resources.
Both egocentric and religious zeal have impeded the progress of understanding the world we live in many times throughout history. I hope it does not continue to dominate this area of understanding as it has for so many years.
I will say your idea of using the concept of a demon to understand something is not particularly new. And not without merit. Since in 1867 James Maxwell use the concept of a sorting demon to understand the concept of heat transfer and entropy. As the mechanism of these thermodynamic effects were unknown at the time. They saw something happen, but could not say HOW or WHY it happens.
Good thing that Maxwell and his little demon didn't give up. It took a series of people over many years grappling with the second law of thermodynamics to understand it(Maxwell, Smoluchowski, Einstein, Feynman, Zurek and many others) The demon was born in 1867 and was finally retired around 1992. It took years to understand this and new concepts to be born; Brownian motion, Quantum Mechanics, etc. But people kept at it and eventually understood it.
I hope that is the case for ESP, Precognition, etc... Maybe it is nothing mystical at all... Maybe it is a product of quantum effects on synaptic gaps, maybe some kind of temporal distortion wave, or possibly something only God understands and doesn't want us to know about.
I don't know, but I would love to find out for sure.
