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Old 30-08-2011, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by CraigS View Post
But Bert … we align our lifestyles to live in accordance with what these models are telling us.

Should I stop doing this ?
Our minds have evolved for survival and enjoyment of life in the biosphere of Earth. Even if our brains work at the quantum level it is still remarkable we can begin to model the Universe which is far outside our needs for mere survival or earthly material enjoyment. I was just pointing out that our feeble efforts can only be at best a very poor approximation of reality. That does not mean we should stop trying. Even a negative experimental result carries meaningful information.

Consider this statement.

A brain that thinks it could fully understand it's own workings would be very feeble indeed!

If I had a full answer to your last question I would be omniscient and you know who HE/SHE is!

Bert
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