[ExI] The Meaning of the Universe

[Will Steinberg]

John, this video is kind of funny, but god is the sum consciousness of the
universe and all possible universes.  It makes sense to think that, if
disparate neurons make our consciousness, then greater interconnected
consciousnesses make a bigger emergent mind.  Panpsychism seems much more
rational than atheism, which is a lack of belief and a lack of caring about
knowledge.

The hard, "capital-A-for-" Atheist movement is a head-in-the-sand
movement.  Most of them know very LITTLE about science, because they say
"science explains the world, and that's all there is!"  Science is a tool
created by humans to gather information.  We use it to construct models
that are able to make good predictions about the world around us--a world
that we only have evidence for because of consciousness.  All scientific
experiments ever conducted were done through conscious actors.  And we have
done experiments that show the direct effect of consciousness on matter.

Anyway I just woke up and I don't feel like writing something strong but I
like Chalmers et al and I think Dennett is a cock.

"Atheism" is a nebulous non-existent viewpoint.  It is the view that we
should NOT try to ask why consciousness exists, or how, or what energy is,
or think about the anthropic principles, or think about the observer
effect.  It is a stupid dogmatic reaction to the stupid dogma of religion.

You should explore gnostic and mystic traditions of religion.  They aren't
the kind of guy-in-the-sky stuff that you might think believing in a
greater consciousness has to be.  There are no miracles.  God is omniscient
but not exactly omnipotent, unless you count the fact that it consists of
all logical possibilities.  But it can't turn you into a tomato without
following a causal process that would actually turn you into a tomato.
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