How Quantum Gravity Destroys Physicalism

"It from bit."

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• Albert Einstein
• Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
• string theory
• loop quantum gravity
• physicalism
• naturalism
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• space-time
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[am101171]

cool video ( I did like the music ).Isn´t this still a naturalistic point of view of the Universe? would´t that make it unlikely to make conclusions about unnaturalistic posibilities based on it? maybe like explaining hot it is to live on earth by studying solely submarine environments with no reference to anything outside of it. Just a thought. thanks

[JohananRaatz]

@am101171 Yes, well it would really sort of do away with the concept of "unnatural" in the semantics really. Ie. Something is "natural" by definition -in that if anything exists it must exist according to it's own nature.

[AstralEtheric]

Gravity is a curvature in space-time, not space-time itself, isn't it? Please fill me in. :p

[JohananRaatz]

@AstralEtheric Well gravity is bent space-time, and due to quantum fluctuations space-time is never quite not bent -just asymptotically so. But the point is that the 'stuff' of the gravity field is space-time itself -just bent. So the problem is that before we can quantize the curvature of that stuff, we first have to explain that stuff -which means going beneath space-time.

[x3MrsDaniFilthx3]

@JohananRaatz how do you still believe in god if your all scientific? do you mean god as in ALL things or the biblical god...because i thought people would know better than to still believe a story from a magical book written before humans knew anything about space, different planets, aliens, parallel universes, etc

[JohananRaatz]

@x3MrsDaniFilthx3 Well I haven't argued any religious beliefs on youtube. However if you want my personal views on religion, they are somewhat complex. I take something of an esoteric approach to religion -as opposed to either a generic mysticism, or a fideistic fundamentalism.

There is nothing fundamentally incompatible about science and theism though.

[TheLovesoul1]

stupid ass music!!!!!!!!!!

[soldatheero]

@esoparagon "God fills both roles" I know man. There is the personal aspect of God and the impersonal. You see this in the religions, Buddhism focus' on the impersonal while catholicism on the personal.

When we study how the universe works in it's most fundamental level we are describing the unconscious (impersonal aspects) of God, God waking up. While God wtih consciousness of himself is akin to what christains would call God. All knowing all powerful.

[JohananRaatz]

@soldatheero "Many are appauled at what this means and will not accept because it means a universal perceiver - God"

I know. lol Tell me about it. I just got done talking to a whiny atheist who was disputing my Universal Orch-OR model in such a way that I don't think he even looked at it. Getting them to the obvious conclusion is like pulling teeth.

"God as reality, not a sky-daddy."

Well in Neoplatonism God oddly enough fills both roles, but that's a different topic.

[soldatheero]

@johananraatz The fact that reality is not synonymous with physical matter has been known by the east since at least the vedas. Now are scientific discoverires are pointing quite clearly that perception is fundamental in nature. Many are appauled at what this means and will not accept because it means a universal perceiver - God. God as reality, not a sky-daddy. See Meher Baba for a spiritual cosmology