Buried among all the clickbait I happened across today was an item that seemed interesting: an article about quantum cosmology’s having found itself in a bit of a jam, with the only way out appearing to be the necessity of an ontologically subjective observer. (We’re not talking about the familiar, century-old “measurement problem” here, but something else that has popped up out of the mathematics of string theory and cosmological “holography”.)
This is, admittedly, just a pop-science article that happened to show up in my Google feed — but the more I learn, and the more I rack my tired, aging brain over these fundamental questions from every angle I can, the more I notice that every line of reasoning, and every model of reality that offers well-grounded explanations of the existence (and continuing existence) of everything around us, on every scale, leads back to the primacy and necessity of a subjective foundation of pure Being that is logically prior to the actual (and therefore contingent) existence of everything else.
Read it here.
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“the existence (and continuing existence) of everything around us, on every scale, leads back to the primacy and necessity of a subjective foundation of pure Being that is logically prior to the actual (and therefore contingent) existence of everything else.”
Malcolm, you won’t be surprised to read that the ‘pure Being’ is God. He spoke it all into being. The first two chapters of Genesis sets it out in term humans might grasp. Also note in a Bible when God said “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness” Gen 1:26. Our? Twice?
Hi Robert,
The investigation is still ongoing, but yes, certainly a “person of interest”. (Prime suspect, even!)