tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post5440001576865654297..comments2024-03-19T08:42:45.690-04:00Comments on The Delaware Libertarian: Brainbreaker for a Sunday morning: Vilenkin's Principle of MediocritySteven H. Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09097470960863103473noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-10943098202069574532009-09-07T03:06:13.757-04:002009-09-07T03:06:13.757-04:00Of course, none of this takes into account the mos...Of course, none of this takes into account the most exceptionally diverse yet unquanitfiable distinction of our species that makes the physical variations an essential nullity. <br /><br />It's called The Spirit.<br /><br />Being as we can never truly know the mind, the "consciousness" of any other species except by empirical correlation to our own, we can never know what variations or level of variation, if any, exist in that realm.<br /><br />Perhaps every fly is an individual expression of existential brilliance...but observably they do little more than eat shit and propagate themselves.<br /><br />I guess the finer points of existence for any species are universal, and thus perhaps the metaphysics of 'mind' are the same. <br /><br />Remember all this next time you murder a fly.Tyler Nixonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03009459340275592274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-10615659070536202192009-09-06T12:01:55.982-04:002009-09-06T12:01:55.982-04:00Interestingly, Vilenkin's discussion of anthro...Interestingly, Vilenkin's discussion of anthropic selection shows that he's wrong and that (if he were to juxtapose the first paragraph with some of the latter ones) he should know that he's wrong.<br /><br />On this subject, I always recommend Feynman's <a href="http://www.gasresources.net/Cargo%20Cult%20Science%20-%20by%20Richard%20Feynman.htm" rel="nofollow">"Cargo Cult Science."</a>Mikonoreply@blogger.com