>>Anyway one of the regular posters is in the habit of infusing
discussions with New Age b.s. The latest is that, because of the
Copenhagen interpretation of QM, all matter is concious. I don't even
know where to start. After a little net research I figure she may have
picked up that belief from some popular books or movies. I am not getting
involved with the discussion; I would be fighting against a deeply
entrenched world view. But it has opend up a whole new fascinating realm
of intellectual garbage that I didn't know was out there. Anybody on the
list have any dealings with QM - Quantum Mysticism that is.>>
That sounds a bit like Whitehead's philosophy. He lectured and wrote
about 60 years ago and is still respected today -- had much to do with
process theology. It may well be wrong, but it is hardly "intellectual
garbage," although your correspondent may have skewed it pretty far.
The concept that all matter has a form of consciousness (obviously a
rock is VERY low level) is explored by Whitehead, among other things. I
found his writings fascinating, exceedingly difficult to understand.
Process theology (panentheism) sort of flows from it. Process theology
answers a lot of the "hard" questions, but not satisfying to me.
A decent introduction to these ideas is by David Ray Griffin. See my
review of his books at
www.burgy.50megs.com/griffin.htm
and
www.burgy.50megs.com/truth/htm
The first was a text we used in seminary in a religion/science course.
Burgy
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