On Consciousness & Existence
William Lane Craig debates Lawrence Krauss at North Carolina State University on the evidence for God
Read more: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/the-craig-krauss-debate-at-north-carolina-state-university#ixzz1w4xOlKLQ
“Mystic Mountain” in the Carina nebula. The image was taken on Feb. 1-2, 2010 by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Hubble’s launch and deployment into an orbit around the Earth.
“All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is a dream, and we’re the imagination of ourselves.”
~ Bill Hicks
A 7 year-old asks Neil deGrasse Tyson what would happen if two black holes collide.
It’s wonderful. You da man, Clayton.
Oh, and the answer will make your head spin in the all the best ways.
(by KaluzaPryme)
Top: The connections between computers in a map of the internet.
Bottom: The connections between neurons in a map of the brain.
(via spiritmolecule)
Join critically-acclaimed author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and world-renowned theoretical physicist and author Lawrence Krauss as they discuss biology, cosmology, religion, and a host of other topics.
Join critically-acclaimed author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and world-renowned theoretical physicist and author Lawrence Krauss as they discuss biology, cosmology, religion, and a host of other topics.
Details × 3 of hand-drawn slides from a talk by Roger Penrose, posted by Andrew at pretendy with his post ‘quantum consciousness?’ (May 18, 2012): a great explanation of the idea, proposed by Penrose and an anesthesiologist named Stuart Hameroff, that consciousness depends on quantum computation they think is somehow going on within the microtubules inside neurons. This theory is probably wrong but like Andrew says, ‘fantastic[] and imaginative’, and if you ask me, a good rule of thumb is: the crazier the theory, the better the art.
“The hope of Dawkins is an increased awareness of the violence and depravity of the Bible, as well as its appreciation in a strictly literary sense. Dawkins points out that “many of the bloody events and wars in English history were the result of religious clashes, and argued that if people would read the Bible they would not see it as a moral guide.” “
