nick c wrote:Hi rickard,
I interpret the end of that video as having the message that the Earth is electrically connected to the Sun which is connected to the galaxy which is connected to other galaxies and so on. We, as part of the Earth, are therefore electrically connected to the Universe. I do not think that the purpose of the video was to imply anything other than to emphasize the ubiquity of electrical connectivity, that is circuits.
Once you go beyond "science" into metaphysics I am sure that many people in and out of the EU would have a wide variety of opinions and thoughts.
How would you test that?rickard wrote:I see no reason for talking about "metaphysics" when it comes to the view of the universe as a living being. If that view is right it is a matter of interest for sience.
nick c wrote:In science a theory needs to be falsifiable.
There needs to be an experiment or observation which has the potential to prove the proposition false.How would you test that?rickard wrote:I see no reason for talking about "metaphysics" when it comes to the view of the universe as a living being. If that view is right it is a matter of interest for sience.
You omitted something. I wrote "by experiment or observation." We cannot create a living being in the lab but we certainly can "observe" living beings.The fact that we can not create a living being in a laboratory, it does not mean that living beings does not exist.
Scientists then test hypotheses by conducting experiments or studies. A scientific hypothesis must be falsifiable, implying that it is possible to identify a possible outcome of an experiment or observation that conflicts with predictions deduced from the hypothesis; otherwise, the hypothesis cannot be meaningfully tested.
nick c wrote:But how can we observe the Universe as a living being? We would have to somehow go "outside" of the Universe. Since the Universe is by definition everything that is, an outside would have to be something that exists separate from the Universe, that is a contradiction in terms.
True, relevant observations can be made from the inside, but my point was that there can be no "outside" to the Universe, if we accept the definition that the U is "everything that exists." Don't living beings exist within an environment?t is a preconseption to think that an observation can only be made from the "outside".
Since we are living in the universe all observations, of its parts, or of its totality, are in reality made from "the inside".
You seemms to be an ignorant person with a very limited view of life. And I think you are misusing your power as a moderator by moving the threds that reflects on questions you do not understand, to the "NIAMI". But I forgive younick c wrote:True, relevant observations can be made from the inside, but my point was that there can be no "outside" to the Universe, if we accept the definition that the U is "everything that exists." Don't living beings exist within an environment?t is a preconseption to think that an observation can only be made from the "outside".
Since we are living in the universe all observations, of its parts, or of its totality, are in reality made from "the inside".
Since the discussion here concerns your suggestion that the Universe is a living being, this thread has been moved to the NIAMI board.
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