{"id":714,"date":"2016-06-24T14:53:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T14:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=714"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:38:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:38:50","slug":"appendix-z60-2008-cosmologist-paul-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"APPENDIX Z60: 2008: Cosmologist Paul Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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APPENDIX Z60:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
2008: Cosmologist Paul Davies<\/div>\n
***<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\u201c\u2026Somehow the universe has engineered, not just\n <\/div>\n
its own awareness, but also its own compr<\/span>ehension. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Mindless, blundering atoms have conspired to make\n <\/div>\n
not just life, not just mind, but understanding\u2026.
\n Could\n <\/div>\n
it just be a \ue0c5uke? Might the fact that the deepest
\n level of\n <\/div>\n
reality has connected to a quirky natural
\n phenomenon\n <\/div>\n
we call \u2018the human mind\u2019 repr<\/span>esent nothing but a bizarre\n <\/div>\n
and temporary aberration in an absurd and
\n pointless\n <\/div>\n
universe? Or is there an even deeper subplot at
\n work?\u201d….\n <\/div>\n
(p. 5)<\/div>\n
\u201cIn some manner\u2026life, mind, and physical law are
\n part of\n <\/div>\n
a common scheme, mutually supporting. Somehow<\/span>, the\n <\/div>\n
universe has <\/span>engineered
\n <\/span>its own <\/span>self-awar<\/span>eness.\u201d\u2026
\n (p. <\/span>231)\n <\/div>\n
*** Paul Davies, The Goldilocks Enigma<\/span>. United Kingdom: Little, First Mariner Books <\/span> <\/span> <\/span> <\/span> <\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n
edition. 2008. pp. 5 and 231<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/p>\n
from the author \u2013<\/div>\n
Paul Davies (b. 1946) is possibly my favorite
\n cosmologist.\n <\/div>\n
I have read several of his works since the early
\n 1980s.\n <\/div>\n
Australian Davies, currently at the University of
\n Arizona,\n <\/div>\n
who has a T<\/span>empleton Prize
\n under his belt, among other\n <\/div>\n
academic trophies, is also a favorite cosmologist of
\n the\n <\/div>\n
academic ruling elite in cosmology<\/span>.\n <\/div>\n
Reading the above quotes, one can sense Davies\u2019<\/span>s\n <\/div>\n
frustration. The holy grail of cosmology \u2013 the
\n cosmic\n <\/div>\n
common denominator\/motivating engine lurks just
\n outside\n <\/div>\n
his quite-formidable intellectual grasp. But, as
\n readers of\n <\/div>\n
Summa surely grasp, all that Davies needs to do to
\n nail-\n <\/div>\n
down ultimate victory after his ~25 books on
\n cosmology\n <\/div>\n
and related, is to simply plug-in metaphysical Summa
\n into\n <\/div>\n
his sophisticated astrophysicist matrix.<\/div>\n
In contemporary times, theologians and physicists
\n both\n <\/div>\n
vector towards the Goldilocks Enigma.<\/div>\n
T<\/span>o theologians, it is an
\n indicator of a \u201cGuiding Hand\u201d\n <\/div>\n
T<\/span>o physicists, it is a
\n conundrum.\n <\/div>\n
Actually<\/span>, the Goldilocks
\n Enigma is a key \u2013 and almost\n <\/div>\n
incontrovertible-support for Q4P<\/div>\n
\u221e<\/div>\n
. It is Q4P<\/div>\n
\u221e<\/div>\n
which so-to-<\/div>\n
speak \u201csets the dial\u201d in each case.<\/div>\n
And Q4P<\/div>\n
\u221e<\/div>\n
of course \u201csets-the-dial\u201d to optimize potential\n <\/div>\n
Extraordinariation \u2013 which includes Life.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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