[ExI] [Extropolis] Religion

[Will Steinberg]

As for dreams, we know our brains are capable of far deeper number
crunching that we typically perform, whether it’s the abilities of
mathematical savants, or people who memorize extremely long sequences or
complicated procedures, or 3d rendering abilities that we can’t comprehend
mathematically.  So I see no reason why dreams can’t reveal things that are
the result of intricate logic/number crunching and pattern recognition.  If
we live in a deterministic universe, wouldn’t prophecy be possible?

On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 5:16 PM efc--- via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Sat, 10 Aug 2024, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
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> > On Fri, Aug 9, 2024, 5:11 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >       Re: that, this site is an incredible I Ching reference:
> https://jamesdekorne.com/GBCh/GBCh.htm
> >
> >
> > This confirms my impression of I Ching as something like tarot: a bunch
> of broadly applicable statements that one is expected to
> > apply to one's own situation, without considering how most - probably
> all - of the others could also apply, had one (or however many
> > you drew) of them been randomly selected instead.
> >
> > In other words, the predictive value of drawing one versus another is
> zero.  They can, however, be useful as mental focusing aids for
> > considering one's situation.
> >
>
> This is my view of iching, dreams and tarot. Kind of creative writing
> aids. But they inspire you to come up with things, as you yourself, use
> its input to come up with things. Could be a deck of playing cards, role
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