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| May 10, 2018 at 17:53 | comment | added | Ray | @m.r. Also, quoting famous scientists isn't really useful unless they're backing any claims up with a solid argument or an experiment. Scientists can and do make mistakes (especially when they talk about things outside their own field; you should hear some of the utter nonsense Penrose has said about AI, for example. (And so, following my own advice, I won't comment on whether atomic physics suggests anything about spirits.)) | |
| May 10, 2018 at 17:45 | comment | added | Ray | @m.r. Other way around. It's fine if there exist things that we can't perceive; we just can't study those. But if the things we do perceive don't at least reflect reality in some way, we're completely screwed. Planck isn't talking about the Cartesian demon, just some Spirit. The Cartesian Demon is a thought experiment in which a demon is constantly and deliberately giving us false sense data in order to deceive us. If one of those existed, we would constantly draw false conclusions. | |
| May 10, 2018 at 6:09 | comment | added | michael | max planck on the demon: "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. . . . We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Spirit. This Spirit is the matrix of all matter." end quote. en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Planck | |
| May 10, 2018 at 6:08 | comment | added | michael | so only what we can see and perceive with physical senses/instruments exists? | |
| May 9, 2018 at 22:47 | history | answered | Ray | CC BY-SA 4.0 |