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RE: Kicking Around Ideas with @vimukthi (A Scary Smart and Awesome Dude!)
nice exchange of ideas here; you're both "scary smart" :-)
In spite of Einstein and many other physicists' belief in a universal consciousness, Quantum Mechanics is all about random probability.
Just a quick question: wasn't Einstein more of an agnostic, leaning to a form of Pantheism? Or did you mean that scientific understanding of the universe on cosmological scale leads more people to a belief in a universal consciousness?
In any case, I would say QM is the best theory we have that can make the best predictions ever, but that it also presents a unique version of the observer effect. Fun stuff to ponder on!
Thanks for a great post, @jaichai :-)
The only physicists brave enough to inject free will into any of their theories are usually in positions where public or peer criticism don't matter much.
RE: Your Question
Not really sure. But his "God doesn't roll dice with the universe" quote doesn't sound purely agnostic, does it?
Thanks for the great comment.
Namaste, Jaichai
P.S.
Niels Bohr's response to Einstein's quote was, "Don't tell God what to do!"
LOL!
I think the idea of "universal consciousness" is really just an overkill or a personification. Sometimes things are what they are as they are. take geometry for an example. Take numbers and mathematical functions for an example. Nothing keeps them in check. Nothing guides them. You can personify the laws of geometry and you can explain parallel lines as something like the railway tracks. But it's not really necessary and could be even confusing for the newbies.
This is a major flaw I see in Mahayana Buddhism where they personify the buddhahood and the understanding of the Buddha as The Saṃbhogakāya and Dharmakāya. It's more of over complication than anything (IMO)
So love your Occam's Razors.