I just minutes ago learned that the amazing and quirky Freeman Dyson led the design team that created the safe, small nuclear research reactor reactor pictured 30 feet below me in this userpic from about 8 years ago.
And, quoting someone, "Dyson has suggested a kind of cosmic metaphysics of mind. In his book Infinite in all Directions he is writing about three levels of mind: "The universe shows evidence of the operations of mind on three levels. The first level is the level of elementary physical processes in quantum mechanics. Matter in quantum mechanics is [...] constantly making choices between alternative possibilities according to probabilistic laws. [...] The second level at which we detect the operations of mind is the level of direct human experience. [...] [I]t is reasonable to believe in the existence of a third level of mind, a mental component of the universe. If we believe in this mental component and call it God, then we can say that we are small pieces of God's mental apparatus"
Dyson has won awards and broken ground in many actual and theoreretical sciences for like 60 years. Early and smart thought on village-level green energy, space colonization and ways of looking for advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, nuclear physics, quantum mechanics, visionary futurism, theoretical n-dimensional math, nuclear energy and propulsion, math formulas so out-there I don't comprehend them, including reconciling Heisenberg and Einstein in certain ways I don't grasp (Sorry, Albert, but in the lower dimensions at least, God DOES play at dice. But it all reconciles in higher ones., to where determinism and free will are One. Just my input, there. Heh.)
Just thought it was funny since I re-added that userpic this morning, then read a bit on on the TRIGA reactor series, (of which the one I posed with is a Mark-1 used to transmute elements for analytical purposes by USGS) and by entirely other surfed waves, came upon Dyson's wikipedia entry after writing my last missive here, without knowing of his involvement with that reactor design OR the quote I placed in this post. I'd, of course, heard of him, but not this stuff..
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I just minutes ago learned that the amazing and quirky Freeman Dyson led the design team that created the safe, small nuclear research reactor reactor pictured 30 feet below me in this userpic from about 8 years ago.
And, quoting someone,
"Dyson has suggested a kind of cosmic metaphysics of mind. In his book Infinite in all Directions he is writing about three levels of mind: "The universe shows evidence of the operations of mind on three levels. The first level is the level of elementary physical processes in quantum mechanics. Matter in quantum mechanics is [...] constantly making choices between alternative possibilities according to probabilistic laws. [...] The second level at which we detect the operations of mind is the level of direct human experience. [...] [I]t is reasonable to believe in the existence of a third level of mind, a mental component of the universe. If we believe in this mental component and call it God, then we can say that we are small pieces of God's mental apparatus"
Dyson has won awards and broken ground in many actual and theoreretical sciences for like 60 years. Early and smart thought on village-level green energy, space colonization and ways of looking for advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, nuclear physics, quantum mechanics, visionary futurism, theoretical n-dimensional math, nuclear energy and propulsion, math formulas so out-there I don't comprehend them, including reconciling Heisenberg and Einstein in certain ways I don't grasp (Sorry, Albert, but in the lower dimensions at least, God DOES play at dice. But it all reconciles in higher ones., to where determinism and free will are One. Just my input, there. Heh.)
Just thought it was funny since I re-added that userpic this morning, then read a bit on on the TRIGA reactor series, (of which the one I posed with is a Mark-1 used to transmute elements for analytical purposes by USGS) and by entirely other surfed waves, came upon Dyson's wikipedia entry after writing my last missive here, without knowing of his involvement with that reactor design OR the quote I placed in this post. I'd, of course, heard of him, but not this stuff..