The Paradox of Free Will
TRANSCEND VIDEOS, 17 Jul 2023
Pierangelo Pirak | Vimeo - TRANSCEND Media Service
The Neuroscience, Physics, and Philosophy of Freedom in a Universe of Fixed Laws
Journalist Melissa Hogenboom and a constellation of neuroscientists, physicists, and philosophers explore the science and subtleties of the free will question — a question that remains not only unanswered but a testament to Hannah Arendt’s astute observation:
“To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [would be to lose] the capacity to ask all the answerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.”
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Quite an interesting analysis of the Mind.
However,
Consciousness which is Peace
Exists both within and without
Endless structures of the Mind
Otherwise, how does one explain this latest finding from the James Webb space telescope?
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Scientists have confirmed that just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, time ran five times slower than it does today, 13.8 billion years later. Though scientists have long been aware that conditions just after Big Bang were radically different than those in the cosmos we see around us today, the discovery shows that time is relative in regards to the age of the Universe, too, just like Einstein predicted.
The breakthrough is detailed in a new paper published in Nature Astronomy authored by Geraint Lewis, an astrophysicist at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy at the University of Sydney, and Brendon Brewer from the University of Auckland’s Department of Statistics, who made the long-awaited observation of cosmological time dilation in the early Universe.
“What we observed essentially is that when we look at the distant universe, we see it run in slow motion. It’s like watching a movie that’s been slowed down; whatever is going on out there is running slower,” Lewis explained. “The further back we look, the slower things seem to occur. At its heart, this is ‘Einstein is right… again’ type research.”
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The Big Bang did not happen.
The Big Bang is happening.
And humanity is a part of it, here and now.
Consciousness / Peace is our one and only guide.
As Pascal observed, the mind is busyness, distraction, and diversion.
Continually falling dominoes as clearly demonstrated in the video.
Yes, and I believe that is the reason why, in our times, the young and also not so young are led to cultivate their mind but not their consciousness, and are constantly distracted so that the mind cannot really process or produce anything. It is a serious problem for humanity, because it is hardly reversible..