Re: Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 7:20:18 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:

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gharnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> wrote:

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"Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than
we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." -- J.B.S. Haldane

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Just talk. Haldane was a biologist, and not known for competence in
physics or cosmology. The Universe is not an evolved biologcal system.

Are we sure of that?

His naive psychologising about inherent limitations of the human
brain is best ignored.

I don't know about that, but
"he described how he 'enjoyed the opportunity of killing people and
regarded this as a respectable relic of primitive man.'”
Did he have a troubling little psychological problem, or maybe
it was PTSD.

Fortunatately Haldane himself saw that his sayings
were 'suspicions' only,
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Jan

Well, I have suspicions about his suspicions.
"Nobel laureate Peter Medawar once referred to Haldane as, 'the
cleverest
man I ever knew'”
I consider his suspicions as "clever" :-)  Fortunately, it doesn't
seemed
to have prevented a sufficient number from trying to understand the
Cosmic
All anyway.