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tama

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23. Because

Fri Jan 27, 2012, 06:48 PM

Jan 2012

of the theory of mind I'm participant of, so I assume you care what you are doing (instead of being a philosophical zombie), so in this Universe that includes theory of mind and sentient beings acting according to it, there is caring going on. Hence, caring is intrinsic to universe, not excluded outside it.

Personifying Universe as a subject of English sentence could be, and probably is because other languages behave differently, just a peculiarity of English grammars without need to jump to conclusion that Universe is a person - and nothing else. Likewise, there is no reason to assume that caring can happen only between two grammatical subjects, even though English grammar does not allow sentences without grammatical subjects.

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If we have figured out billions of years of cosmic evolution in a few decades... [View all] jberryhill Jan 2012 OP

No. greyl Jan 2012 #1

Show your work jberryhill Jan 2012 #2

It cannot be shown directly, only inferred. nt greyl Jan 2012 #3

nope Angry Dragon Jan 2012 #4

I'm beginning to suspect pokerfan Jan 2012 #5

There are at least three ways the universe will elude us forever bananas Jan 2012 #20

4. pokerfan Jan 2012 #21

Why do you assume the Universe cares what it is doing? tridim Jan 2012 #6

If you take the Universe as a machine to simulate itself jberryhill Jan 2012 #9

Because tama Jan 2012 #23

Why is this thread in the Science forum? MarkCharles Jan 2012 #7

Does this count? jberryhill Jan 2012 #8

We are part of the universe. drm604 Jan 2012 #10

It's incredible to think that a cloud of hydrogen and gravity eventually congealed to form brains. tridim Jan 2012 #11

No. ElboRuum Jan 2012 #12

Majikthise and Vroomfondel. ElboRuum Jan 2012 #13

How fast does the universe figure itself out? laconicsax Jan 2012 #14

Okay here jberryhill Jan 2012 #15

That's a good practice! laconicsax Jan 2012 #16

It's like baseball cards jberryhill Jan 2012 #17

As fast as it can... ElboRuum Jan 2012 #19

You're assuming we have it all figured out. tinrobot Jan 2012 #18

We don't know nothing. hunter Jan 2012 #22

Very deep question tama Jan 2012 #24