Originally Posted By: samwik

Nor was I or anyone here trying to equate Dark stuff with anything spiritual (or with "imaginary extra properties").


OK, glad that's cleared up.


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the material universe is an emergent phenomenon of some more fundamental reality, so why limit youself to only


May well be. And animals are an emergent phenomenon of some more fundamental reality (the material universe). Human emotions and imagination are even higher level phenomena. They seem important to us because we're strongly aware of them, but they're only based on the physical world we and our ancestors experienced.

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think that so far the Humanities (literature) expresses those hints better than Physics, but physics is getting

If by 'better' you mean in a way that feels nicer to humans, then sure. But humanities can in no way get any closer to fundamental understanding than physics can. The best it can do is placate and fool people. It has a long history of being consistently wildly wrong about nearly everything.

Physics on the other hand is slowly converging on a more and more consistent picture of reality. Literature seems to be diverging - wilder ideas are popping up where in the past things were simpler. Obviously that means it's getting more and more wrong, because it's getting more and more self-contradictory.


Last edited by kallog; 07/31/10 05:12 AM.