Here's a lively one, not enough resources on this planet to build a starship, which is a feat in itself, but think of all the resources necessary to build the infrastructure, and all of the incremental developments overtime on the way to building a starship. People who believe this are insane. Hahaha!
Not even enough resources on this planet, in the context on how all the fascists siphoning the surpluses (getting a cut) to feed, cloth, and provide adequate shelter on this planet for every human being.
Basically its come down to people starve huddling in the dark so the insane can build up something that won't ever become reality. Like I typed, at risk of being redundant, insane.
Even even worser: Read The Naked Bible, because Mauro Biglino points out the Old Testament sure reads like it's documenting the genetic manipulation and creation of humans by an evil, old, dead space alien.
The only way I know of to explain what we see is something like Morphic Resonance https://www.sheldrake.org/
I reject chaos theory. I consider that life is a representative entity in this universe and that it has an integral function. That life on this particular planet has advanced as far as it has suggests we may be among the more advanced life forms in the universe. The progression of extension of physical animal powers (mechanisation) and mental powers (computerisation) strongly suggests we will eventually form a coalition with our own technology and, perhaps one day, fuse with whatever energy is composed of. Intuitively, this suggests that is when we will serve our universal purpose, perhaps to precipitate a flow into some other aspect of the multiverse. Whatever, this seems infinitely more probable to me than the Big Bang with its presumption that life has no integral purpose.
Bab the prophet once said that Noah was a geneticist and he didn't take the animals into an Ark in their mature state, but in test tubes. The test tubes were actually of human embryos and to create all the different animals all Noah had to do was to arrest the development of it at a certain time. Then God would give it a "Speciel Memory" and it would have life. Rupert Sheldrake would call this Morphic Resonance. Each species has its own Speciel Mind as does humanity. So, isn't it interesting to in lieu of Darwinism that it is exactly backward. Curiouser and curiouser.
Well, I know it's all for the progress of mankind and our future convergence in the elonosphere, but I am getting a bit tired of seeing so many mutations in public. I miss the normal human shapes and behaviors of my youth. And I'm not even "get off my lawn" old yet. If only Saint Barry was right when he said, "the science is settled". Instead Sciency stuff seems to be in overdrive trying to kill us now. I guess all those decades of progressive hubris turning Jesus into a magic carpet salesman to paper over all those teeny tiny gaps in the unifying theory of everything wasn't enough so now we must be punished for our tendency to look beyond the myopic microscopes of Scientism.
Oct 9, 2022·edited Oct 9, 2022Liked by Winston Smith
"After a very long time of new standard toy car manuals we arrive at the manual for the construction of the Starship Enterprise (as well as many other offshoot manuals that went onto describe all manner of functional machines), including the sourcing of raw materials, manufacture of parts, assembly, computer coding, all the technology involved."
This analogy was both hilarious and gripping.
I have always found "religious" Darwinians (i.e. those who view blind mechanism as some form of God-proxy) to be quite shallow and simple-minded, once you scratch the shiny surface. This is not to say they are stupid; many of them are quite brilliant, in the generic sense of that word. But their brilliance is reminiscent of athletes who've exercised one particular muscle-group to such an absurd degree that their bodies have become unsuitable for any other task (My wife once proposed the image of a skateboarder with one GIANT leg, lmao).
The notion of "complexity-through-error" is itself revealing, in a "million monkeys typing Shakespeare" sort of way. It is almost as if they are working very, very hard to divorce meaning from life, the way men like Dawkins and Sam Harris do. It never surprises me when their mask of sanity slips, revealing the howling darkness within. Oddly enough, the reveal often has to do with the harming of children. In Dawkins' case, it was the suggestion that it would be "unethical" to bring children with Down's Syndrome to term. In Harris', more recently, it was the statement that he didn't care if they "found a basement full of dead kids on Hunter Biden's laptop."
I know that a sample size of two does not constitute a pattern, but I have witnessed the same overlap between atheism and child-harm in discussions of gender identity and abortion often enough to suggest that the correlation is extremely widespread, and I find that fascinating.
Is that spicy enough for you?
Anyway, good show, Winston. I already love this series and can't wait to read more.
Here's an interesting point that genetics itself is a broken science, just like virology. Trying to understand invisible processes by inference of instruments leads to an imaginary explanation... Even if the intent was honest. Same goes for quantum "theory"
Proof positive that awe inspiring irreducible complexity is not a barrier to stupidity. I will remember this post the next time some idiot tells me that The Science based authoritarianism is in my best interest.
Wow, what a great summary to gain understanding just how complex life is.
It really brings to life for me the Einstein quote.
“As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.”
Also highlights the hubris and arrogance of anyone demanding that someone else be injected with mRNA!
Oct 9, 2022·edited Oct 9, 2022Liked by Winston Smith
You say, "If it were a computer code we’d call it artificial intelligence of a very complex design rather than a random chance collection of computer characters."
I used to work as a computer programmer, so I know humans cannot create artificial intelligence, but the establishment wants us to think so, to divert any attention or relevance to conscience. Then they can just make up morality, and we get the crazy left brain dominated world we have now, disconnected from right brain heart based feelings connection to Creator. The "elite" can manipulate people better that way, with trauma based fear mind control. You really think Putin and America are randomly threatening nuclear war without getting authorization from their handlers/masters first? Like Morpheus said to Neo, "You think that's air you are breathing?" The matrix deceives everybody at first.
What humans CAN do, is create some robot and deceive ourselves into thinking our complex computer algorithms are somehow sentient. But really what is happening is deceptive consciousnesses traditionally called "demons", are possessing and manipulating the robot to talk like a human. Fiction conditions human perception more than the classroom. Droids in Star Wars, Data in Star Trek, and many other sci-fi examples combined with some fancy real-life tech, like my chess program that seems so intelligent when it mostly beats me, makes us think humans can actually create AI. I KNOW computers do not think and never will. They simply do exactly what the programmer programs them to do. But some people are easily deceived, for a variety of reasons.
I am reminded of the movie Independence Day, about alien invasion. Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum played two characters that docked an alien ship with the mother ship and uploaded a computer virus, which caused the aliens' shields to fail and the humans won the day. This scene probably went by most viewers, but a computer programmer like me can't help from thinking things like this: 1) How can Jeff's character create a computer virus on alien tech that is probably using something other than human base-2 math numbering system called binary? 2) Might they be using base-10 instead, way too complicated to be compatible with human tech? 3) Could not the aliens perhaps even be using organic or genetic code based computer systems, many orders of magnitude beyond human tech to be compatible enough to upload a virus? 3) Even assuming base-2 compatible tech based on similar binary digital systems, would not Jeff's character need to know what operating system and basic architecture the aliens use for their computers? 4) How could Jeff create a virus program so fast and without testing from the Quality assurance department to make sure it worked, as nothing in computer programs work the first time without testing? 5) How did Jeff get past any firewalls so easily and quickly upload the virus the first time and it work immediately, without knowing ANY of these details that he would need? But the impossible (ie evolution) becomes possible in the world of imagination, if you don't think too much, or understand necessary details.
Anyway....people choose to believe genetic code (many orders of magnitude beyond computer code), can randomly assemble itself into humans as easily as Jeff's character created & uploaded his virus program. These believers are not stupid people, rather in a hypnotic trance that causes them to believe what the establishment has brainwashed them to believe since birth. The indoctrination system called the education system, which has been hijacked by the "elite" manipulators, has intentionally deceived people, and it truly is easier to fool young minds than it is to convince those same minds later in life that they have been fooled. That is why these people are under mass psychosis and need to escape, like this substack says......
Could the mistake be in ascribing ‘simplicity’ to the fundamental particles of matter? The fact that we measure certain characteristics about them, or deduce their existence from theory, does not mean that they do not have other, yet to be comprehended, properties. Perhaps it is these properties, in combination with the vastness of time, that gives rise to life?
I've nothing terribly clever to add save to more or less echo my comment on the last piece. Personally, I've found the irreducible complexity argument quite convincing for some time. The basic elements of cellular "machinery" at the molecular level could not have been assembled from scratch by random processes. We are then left with the question: where did they come from? Taking it further, the fossil record clearly shows that life has become more diverse and sophisticated over time, again posing the question, how? "Intelligent Design" as a working high level hypothesis is all very well and good but tells us nothing about HOW the intelligence designs life. What are the tools used by Universe, or God, or whatever name you want to give to it, to reach into molecular structures and impart information into them? Is it by viruses? Electromagnetic fields? Light? All of the above?
The other question, of course, that is probably the most interesting and cannot be answered even in principle when working from Darwinian priors, is WHY.
Well, there is no question whatsoever that Darwinism, as it is usually conceived by materialists, is plain wrong. Anybody who takes the trouble to read, for example, Michael Behe's books carefully, will realize this. Seriously.
That being said, all you need to change the picture is some form of teleology or another. (Darwin approved of teleology btw.) This opens the door to a whole host of solutions/possibilities - from an outlook that keeps much of evolutionary thinking intact (like McGilchrist) to a more theistic approach.
Here's a lively one, not enough resources on this planet to build a starship, which is a feat in itself, but think of all the resources necessary to build the infrastructure, and all of the incremental developments overtime on the way to building a starship. People who believe this are insane. Hahaha!
Not even enough resources on this planet, in the context on how all the fascists siphoning the surpluses (getting a cut) to feed, cloth, and provide adequate shelter on this planet for every human being.
Basically its come down to people starve huddling in the dark so the insane can build up something that won't ever become reality. Like I typed, at risk of being redundant, insane.
It's even worse!
"The fastest observed rate of mutation fixation is too slow to account for the genetic divergence between any two species."
-Meme from this https://voxday.net/tag/evolution/
Even even worser: Read The Naked Bible, because Mauro Biglino points out the Old Testament sure reads like it's documenting the genetic manipulation and creation of humans by an evil, old, dead space alien.
The only way I know of to explain what we see is something like Morphic Resonance https://www.sheldrake.org/
No lively commentary needed. Just a pause to experience full immersion into the wonderful complexities of life.
I reject chaos theory. I consider that life is a representative entity in this universe and that it has an integral function. That life on this particular planet has advanced as far as it has suggests we may be among the more advanced life forms in the universe. The progression of extension of physical animal powers (mechanisation) and mental powers (computerisation) strongly suggests we will eventually form a coalition with our own technology and, perhaps one day, fuse with whatever energy is composed of. Intuitively, this suggests that is when we will serve our universal purpose, perhaps to precipitate a flow into some other aspect of the multiverse. Whatever, this seems infinitely more probable to me than the Big Bang with its presumption that life has no integral purpose.
Bab the prophet once said that Noah was a geneticist and he didn't take the animals into an Ark in their mature state, but in test tubes. The test tubes were actually of human embryos and to create all the different animals all Noah had to do was to arrest the development of it at a certain time. Then God would give it a "Speciel Memory" and it would have life. Rupert Sheldrake would call this Morphic Resonance. Each species has its own Speciel Mind as does humanity. So, isn't it interesting to in lieu of Darwinism that it is exactly backward. Curiouser and curiouser.
Well, I know it's all for the progress of mankind and our future convergence in the elonosphere, but I am getting a bit tired of seeing so many mutations in public. I miss the normal human shapes and behaviors of my youth. And I'm not even "get off my lawn" old yet. If only Saint Barry was right when he said, "the science is settled". Instead Sciency stuff seems to be in overdrive trying to kill us now. I guess all those decades of progressive hubris turning Jesus into a magic carpet salesman to paper over all those teeny tiny gaps in the unifying theory of everything wasn't enough so now we must be punished for our tendency to look beyond the myopic microscopes of Scientism.
"After a very long time of new standard toy car manuals we arrive at the manual for the construction of the Starship Enterprise (as well as many other offshoot manuals that went onto describe all manner of functional machines), including the sourcing of raw materials, manufacture of parts, assembly, computer coding, all the technology involved."
This analogy was both hilarious and gripping.
I have always found "religious" Darwinians (i.e. those who view blind mechanism as some form of God-proxy) to be quite shallow and simple-minded, once you scratch the shiny surface. This is not to say they are stupid; many of them are quite brilliant, in the generic sense of that word. But their brilliance is reminiscent of athletes who've exercised one particular muscle-group to such an absurd degree that their bodies have become unsuitable for any other task (My wife once proposed the image of a skateboarder with one GIANT leg, lmao).
The notion of "complexity-through-error" is itself revealing, in a "million monkeys typing Shakespeare" sort of way. It is almost as if they are working very, very hard to divorce meaning from life, the way men like Dawkins and Sam Harris do. It never surprises me when their mask of sanity slips, revealing the howling darkness within. Oddly enough, the reveal often has to do with the harming of children. In Dawkins' case, it was the suggestion that it would be "unethical" to bring children with Down's Syndrome to term. In Harris', more recently, it was the statement that he didn't care if they "found a basement full of dead kids on Hunter Biden's laptop."
I know that a sample size of two does not constitute a pattern, but I have witnessed the same overlap between atheism and child-harm in discussions of gender identity and abortion often enough to suggest that the correlation is extremely widespread, and I find that fascinating.
Is that spicy enough for you?
Anyway, good show, Winston. I already love this series and can't wait to read more.
Here's an interesting point that genetics itself is a broken science, just like virology. Trying to understand invisible processes by inference of instruments leads to an imaginary explanation... Even if the intent was honest. Same goes for quantum "theory"
https://viroliegy.com/2022/01/26/the-epistemological-crisis-in-genomics/
Proof positive that awe inspiring irreducible complexity is not a barrier to stupidity. I will remember this post the next time some idiot tells me that The Science based authoritarianism is in my best interest.
https://markbisone.substack.com/p/mark-recommends-a-thing-1
Nailed it. Again.
Wow, what a great summary to gain understanding just how complex life is.
It really brings to life for me the Einstein quote.
“As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.”
Also highlights the hubris and arrogance of anyone demanding that someone else be injected with mRNA!
You say, "If it were a computer code we’d call it artificial intelligence of a very complex design rather than a random chance collection of computer characters."
I used to work as a computer programmer, so I know humans cannot create artificial intelligence, but the establishment wants us to think so, to divert any attention or relevance to conscience. Then they can just make up morality, and we get the crazy left brain dominated world we have now, disconnected from right brain heart based feelings connection to Creator. The "elite" can manipulate people better that way, with trauma based fear mind control. You really think Putin and America are randomly threatening nuclear war without getting authorization from their handlers/masters first? Like Morpheus said to Neo, "You think that's air you are breathing?" The matrix deceives everybody at first.
What humans CAN do, is create some robot and deceive ourselves into thinking our complex computer algorithms are somehow sentient. But really what is happening is deceptive consciousnesses traditionally called "demons", are possessing and manipulating the robot to talk like a human. Fiction conditions human perception more than the classroom. Droids in Star Wars, Data in Star Trek, and many other sci-fi examples combined with some fancy real-life tech, like my chess program that seems so intelligent when it mostly beats me, makes us think humans can actually create AI. I KNOW computers do not think and never will. They simply do exactly what the programmer programs them to do. But some people are easily deceived, for a variety of reasons.
I am reminded of the movie Independence Day, about alien invasion. Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum played two characters that docked an alien ship with the mother ship and uploaded a computer virus, which caused the aliens' shields to fail and the humans won the day. This scene probably went by most viewers, but a computer programmer like me can't help from thinking things like this: 1) How can Jeff's character create a computer virus on alien tech that is probably using something other than human base-2 math numbering system called binary? 2) Might they be using base-10 instead, way too complicated to be compatible with human tech? 3) Could not the aliens perhaps even be using organic or genetic code based computer systems, many orders of magnitude beyond human tech to be compatible enough to upload a virus? 3) Even assuming base-2 compatible tech based on similar binary digital systems, would not Jeff's character need to know what operating system and basic architecture the aliens use for their computers? 4) How could Jeff create a virus program so fast and without testing from the Quality assurance department to make sure it worked, as nothing in computer programs work the first time without testing? 5) How did Jeff get past any firewalls so easily and quickly upload the virus the first time and it work immediately, without knowing ANY of these details that he would need? But the impossible (ie evolution) becomes possible in the world of imagination, if you don't think too much, or understand necessary details.
Anyway....people choose to believe genetic code (many orders of magnitude beyond computer code), can randomly assemble itself into humans as easily as Jeff's character created & uploaded his virus program. These believers are not stupid people, rather in a hypnotic trance that causes them to believe what the establishment has brainwashed them to believe since birth. The indoctrination system called the education system, which has been hijacked by the "elite" manipulators, has intentionally deceived people, and it truly is easier to fool young minds than it is to convince those same minds later in life that they have been fooled. That is why these people are under mass psychosis and need to escape, like this substack says......
Could the mistake be in ascribing ‘simplicity’ to the fundamental particles of matter? The fact that we measure certain characteristics about them, or deduce their existence from theory, does not mean that they do not have other, yet to be comprehended, properties. Perhaps it is these properties, in combination with the vastness of time, that gives rise to life?
I've nothing terribly clever to add save to more or less echo my comment on the last piece. Personally, I've found the irreducible complexity argument quite convincing for some time. The basic elements of cellular "machinery" at the molecular level could not have been assembled from scratch by random processes. We are then left with the question: where did they come from? Taking it further, the fossil record clearly shows that life has become more diverse and sophisticated over time, again posing the question, how? "Intelligent Design" as a working high level hypothesis is all very well and good but tells us nothing about HOW the intelligence designs life. What are the tools used by Universe, or God, or whatever name you want to give to it, to reach into molecular structures and impart information into them? Is it by viruses? Electromagnetic fields? Light? All of the above?
The other question, of course, that is probably the most interesting and cannot be answered even in principle when working from Darwinian priors, is WHY.
Well, there is no question whatsoever that Darwinism, as it is usually conceived by materialists, is plain wrong. Anybody who takes the trouble to read, for example, Michael Behe's books carefully, will realize this. Seriously.
That being said, all you need to change the picture is some form of teleology or another. (Darwin approved of teleology btw.) This opens the door to a whole host of solutions/possibilities - from an outlook that keeps much of evolutionary thinking intact (like McGilchrist) to a more theistic approach.