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December 29th, 2009 by Sean Steorn Update

Looks like the Orbo guys have updated their site and added diagrams and videos:

http://www.steorn.com/

I’m not seeing any claims of over-unity… (EDIT: Oh wait, yes they’re still claiming over-unity).

Still waiting on a video where the electrical output is fed back into the machine.

Posted in Random Stuff, Science | 3 Comments »

December 25th, 2009 by Sean Higher Intelligence

I find it interesting that there seems to be this conflict between science and religion. There are times when modern scientific belief seems to spit in the face of spirituality, but really, I derive a lot of spiritual feelings from understanding science.

One thing that continues to amaze me is evolution. The classical argument is always between evolution vs. intelligent design - i.e., did nature randomly produce living creatures, or did some higher intelligence design living creatures?

If you believe in evolution, it usually implies you are denying the existence of some form of higher intelligence. If evolution is true, then God didn’t create everything… natural processes that don’t rely on God’s existence did.

What’s really interesting though is that - if you believe in evolution - it becomes highly probable that higher intelligences do exist.

Evolution is something that happens inside of systems. If a system is flexible enough to have self-replicating objects, then life will eventually evolve. This “system” can be the reality that we live in… or it can be numbers in a computer. The system itself doesn’t matter - just whether the system has enough flexibility to support the process of evolution.

The physical world we live in, on Earth, is flexible enough to support the process of evolution. Self-replicating objects, starting at the molecular level, slowly evolved over millions of years into multi-cellular organisms.

How far-fetched is it to believe that there are other systems in our reality that are flexible enough to support evolution? I would argue that it’s not only possible - it strikes me as quite probable.

For example, perhaps the laws of electro-magnetism have enough flexibility to support evolution. If they do, then non-physical beings of light could exist right now, having evolved for the past 13 billion years. That destroys humanity’s 6 million years of evolution.

It does sound silly to say “non-physical beings of light”, but that’s exactly what it would be. And if the laws of electro-magnetism are flexible enough to support evolution, then these non-physical, highly-evolved light organisms most certainly exist.

How can you justify being an Atheist, other than you’re just pissed off at your dad?

Posted in Consciousness, Science | 5 Comments »

December 2nd, 2009 by Sean Wolfram, Again

I know a lot of you guys aren’t convinced that Wolfram’s theory of everything is correct. The more I think about it, and the more I digest his book… the more I become convinced that he has simply figured it out. I believe Wolfram will go down in history for being the first human being to discover how reality works. Again, if you haven’t seen his presentation, start here. If you need more detail, then buy his book.

Part of me always hesitates to align myself with one particular mindset. I like to hold conflicting views in my head, and force myself to see things from different perspectives. But Wolfram’s theory is just… genius. It’s amazingly convincing. It speaks directly to my programmer’s mind, and gives me clarity. Or maybe I’m just sick of all the philosophical questions, and Wolfram has become “good enough” for me :-).

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It’s important to realize: Wolfram’s theory doesn’t really make predictions about how reality behaves. It sounds strange… you would think that if you know how everything works, then you should be able to predict what’s going to happen. Wolfram’s genius is in dispelling this assumption. How does PK work? Are OBEs real? Is there life after death? I still don’t know. Wolfram’s theory isn’t in the same ballpark as these questions.

Wolfram’s theory only really asserts two core ideas: 1. Reality is deterministic. 2. Reality is inherently unpredictable.

As you can see, these two ideas don’t really offer solutions to any “real world” problems. We still need to worry about global warming. We still need to explore space. We still need to eat, breathe, love, and survive. Nothing really changes.

But these ideas… They just feel like such a giant sigh of relief. They say, in a loud booming voice: Everything is OK. There’s always a third option. Reality is divinely balanced, and no one can take that away. Every experience is new and unique, and the only way to know for sure what’s going to happen is to wait and see.

And these ideas aren’t just nice thoughts anymore. They’re proven, in black and white, in Wolfram’s book.

I feel satisfied. Yes, I still have an infinite number of things to learn and experience — but that’s the point! My philosophical self has been extinguished. Thank you, Wolfram.

Posted in Philosophy, Belief Systems | 7 Comments »

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