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Does the Mandelbrot Set prove the Mind of God behind what we see.

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I disagree, we have seen common spiritual awareness and experiences that move beyond the individual, quite power in fact. Even though we cannot know others experience we know they have experiences like ourselves and we can connect through this such as together enjoying the experience of say a sunset or a starrt night out in the desert in awe and speechless each knowing they experienced something beyond the physical world they inhabited.
Huh? :scratch:

They experience 'a sunset or a starrt night out in the desert', yeah?
So how does that become 'they experienced something beyond the physical world they inhabited'???

Last time I checked, 'sunsets and starry nights' are most certainly not 'beyond the physical world' I inhabit! :rolleyes:

Honestly, I really do wonder whether people actually ever stop to consider the words (and the meanings) of what they have written? :sigh:
 
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You are in no position of assessing mainstream’s “own logic” when it is obvious you do not comprehend the science and are using the argument of personal incredulity fallacy where your lack of understanding doesn’t translate to scientists not understanding either.
But I am in a position to read scientists own words, own theories and what they attempt to explain and predict. Inflation theory predicts a Multiverse and a Multiverse can have varyings physical parameters thus making time subject to varying physics making it different to our own. That is the simple logic of following through with the current accpted physics of theories.
This demonstrates my point of your lack of comprehension.
Throughout the history of the universe information has never travelled faster than the speed of light.
A major objective of inflation along with explaining why the universe is flat and magnetic monopoles are undetectable, was to address the horizon problem originating in the early universe where the speed of information could never exceed the speed of light.
Sorry your right I got it back the front. Thats right, Inflation could overcome the issue of how the universe was isotrphic when the distances were beyond travelling at the speed of light to reach everywhere. So there was an instant or very fast inflation within a very small void that could transmit that information throughout before the universe expanded into the massive size it is.

But I am sure I read that a beyond the speed of light was part of a current cosmological theory. Anyway what about quantum physics.
From a post of mine in another thread.

“If the velocity of expansion was always equal to the speed of light, this leads to another problem known as the horizon problem.
In the very early and small universe two diametrically opposite points are causally disconnected from each
other as information can only travel at the speed of light and there would not have been enough time for information to travel between these points such as temperature.

The Hubble sphere which is expanding at the speed of light contains all points which are causally connected.
The observable universe needs to be larger than the Hubble sphere for it to be causally connected everywhere.
This is accomplished by a very brief period of exponential expansion many magnitudes greater than the speed of light in the very early universe known as inflation.
The evidence for the universe being causally connected everywhere is the temperature of the CMB which is 2.7⁰ K in all directions from the observer.”


Information can only travel as fast as the Hubble sphere, if the sphere kept pace with the expansion of the universe there would be no need for inflation!
Ok sort of what I said.
You are the one missing the point by trying to conflate science with metaphysics.
Time is a physical parameter in science whether you like it or not and to argue otherwise is metaphysics which is not science.
No I am not disputing 'time' as measured by science in quantified ways. I am saying that metaphysically in the greater scheme of whats reality beyond science that the quantified science measure is just one way to know what 'time' or more specifically what 'Tense' means as an experience.

If you want to claim the only way we can know and measure this experience of tense is by quantifying it then thats a metaphysical claim and not a scientific one.
Introducing metaphysics or intelligent design which is the point you are ultimately trying to make fails because it is unfalsifiable in science.
The whole point of the philosophy of naturalism from which science originates was the recognition the supernatural cannot explain the world around us.
But it also was the fact that science could not explain the supernatural and therefore could not dismiss it metaphysically. Science wasn't to reject that which science cannot know or measure, the spirit or soul or consciousness which we experience as humans. Even Galilao knew this when he wanted to seperate science as math from matters of the soul.
Your posts in this thread demonstrate this for all the huffing and puffing that science is incomplete without introducing the supernatural, you cannot provide one single example where science would benefit such as resolving the galaxy formation problem.
I never said science is incomplete without introducing the supernatural. I said reality is incomplete by just measuring it through the science method. That only tells us about quantified reality. It says nothing about the qualitative stuff such as our conscious experience which also reveals knowledge about the world, reality.
 
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Then provide the actual science.

So far all you have done is make claims.

Provide the actual scientific research papers which show that time exists outside our universe.
Are you really wanting the paper on Inflation theory when its a mainstream accepted theory based on the paper. If its accepted theory then its backed by the science within peer reviwed papers. Are you saying Inflation theory is not backed by peer review.

So I should not have to show you papers on Inflation theory and only show you the relevent parts like how inflation theory predicts Multiverses which I have already done. The article which mentions why scientists say a multiverse in inevitable if inflation theory is correct.

The cosmological model of eternal inflation and the transition from chance to biological evolution in the history of life
 
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Huh? :scratch:

They experience 'a sunset or a starry night out in the desert', yeah?
So how does that become 'they experienced something beyond the physical world they inhabited'???
Your not seeing the forrest through the trees. Its the experience of awe, beauty, colours, that transcends the physical world. Nothing in the physical brain can account for these experiences, nowhere in the neurons or electrical signals are colours, a glowing orange sunset, the awe inspiring experience of a starry universe.

These are real experiences that can reveal knowledge about the world, the universe and beyond. They form the basis for inspiration of great ideas beyond what we know about the physical world. I think it was Edison that said his inventions came to him from the universe, from somewhere beyond himself like it was a gift rather than anything his limited mind was capable of coming up with. This type of experience has been the driver for humans for millenia.
Last time I checked, 'sunsets and starry nights' are most certainly not 'beyond the physical world' I inhabit!
Lol not the physical object itself but that we have an experience of the physical object which is beyond the physical objects mechanisms. Why we should have experiences of what it is like to experience a sunset or starry night.

Some say the true measure of reality is not the measure of 'Matter' as in physical matter but rather 'what matters'. We are primarily creatures of meaning and our experience is not about objectifying reality, thats ok fopr navigating the world practically and helps us a lot. But our real measure of reality is what it means to us, what matters to us in navigating the world which is beyond the physical world.
Honestly, I really do wonder whether people actually ever stop to consider the words (and the meanings) of what they have written? :sigh:
You only say that because your are skeptical of all things but science, perhaps a materialist. So of course this will be of a different language to what you are use to.

But I know exactly what I am talking about as I have done a lot of reading and research on this matter and not woo stuff but mainstream sciences on sociology, psychology, consciousness, spirituality and belief play in human history as real influernces in the world.

I mean I should not even have to explain myself as this is just a basic acknowledge that there is such a thing as spirituality for example. Skeptics just call it emotion or imagination or whatever but it doesn't change the fact that there is evdience that its a real force that can actualy have an effect on physical reality.
 
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But I am in a position to read scientists own words, own theories and what they attempt to explain and predict. Inflation theory predicts a Multiverse and a Multiverse can have varyings physical parameters thus making time subject to varying physics making it different to our own. That is the simple logic of following through with the current accpted physics of theories.
No you are reading your own confirmation bias into the physics.
While eternal inflation theory predicts multiverses, the multiverse theory of different physical parameters for each universe is unfalsifiable as no information of these parameters is available being limited by the speed of light and therefore beyond the particle horizon of our own universe.
Since it is unfalsifiable multiverse theory has been criticized by many scientists for being for philosophical rather than scientific.
But I am sure I read that a beyond the speed of light was part of a current cosmological theory. Anyway what about quantum physics.
The recession velocities of galaxies can exceed the speed of light c due to metric expansion of our universe but information can’t which is why a particle horizon for our universe exists.
If the recession velocity of a galaxy is greater than 2c photons emitted will take an infinite time to reach the observer.

As I explained to you in a previous post quantum information from entangled particles is statistical in nature and while it can travel "instantaneously", it is not information which is limited to the speed c.
No I am not disputing 'time' as measured by science in quantified ways. I am saying that metaphysically in the greater scheme of whats reality beyond science that the quantified science measure is just one way to know what 'time' or more specifically what 'Tense' means as an experience.

If you want to claim the only way we can know and measure this experience of tense is by quantifying it then thats a metaphysical claim and not a scientific one.

But it also was the fact that science could not explain the supernatural and therefore could not dismiss it metaphysically. Science wasn't to reject that which science cannot know or measure, the spirit or soul or consciousness which we experience as humans. Even Galilao knew this when he wanted to seperate science as math from matters of the soul.

I never said science is incomplete without introducing the supernatural. I said reality is incomplete by just measuring it through the science method. That only tells us about quantified reality. It says nothing about the qualitative stuff such as our conscious experience which also reveals knowledge about the world, reality.
Who are you trying to kid?
Do I need to remind you of promoting crackpot theories such as Fleming, the cherry picking of anomalies to create the impression of cosmology being in crisis or suggesting problems in galaxy formation is fatal to BB cosmology.

This forms the pretext of enabling your real agenda that science can be made complete by incorporating the supernatural in the guise of intelligent design.
The footnote in your posts is a dead giveaway.
Science is getting closer and closer to the very core of existence. The closer they get the more they will see that there had to be a creator.
 
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The naturalistic behaviour only has evdience of a certain sort within the causual closure of the physical. But we all know that reality is also made up of stuff that cannot be measured by physical causes of naturalism.
Do they? What are these things that can't be measured. Name. Them. (I suspect we'll get some of the things that follow, but there is no need to ramble on first. Let's get this started.)
Therefore sure science shows the evdience at a certain aspect or level of reality, the quantified reality but not the qualitative aspect of reality which is just as real if not more real, more fundementally real.
The undetectable is "more real" than "reality". Come on, man, this is nonsensical.

Therefore science (methodological naturalism) is not revealing what is (ontologically) but how we should know reality (epistemically). So it cannot make any ontological claims except those within a narrow windown metaphysically. The rest is beyond science. We know it is real because we experience it everyday.
I've never experienced anything beyond the natural world. Keep me out of your claim.

So we have to measure this a different way though in some if not m,any cases the evdience is alrteady there but its assumed to be naturalistic when we don't really know what the fundemental nature of what we are observing represents.
This goes back to the same question I asked above. What is this thing you think we are observing?

Now we move briefly on to the nature of time as a physical coordinate...
Yes and its good at measuring quantitative stuff. But thats just one aspect or dimension if you like to reality and may just be a surface reflection of reality that measures the physical interface of a deeper non physical reality. Fort example physical stuff only makes up 5% of the universe. We cannot see and understand what the other 95% represents.
Or not, because nothing you wrote in the block above was actually about time. (And you seem to now reference dark matter and dark energy as non physical. Bizarre.)

Now we move to the "inner reality" portion of the show...
I disagree, we have seen common spiritual awareness and experiences that move beyond the individual, quite power in fact.
I have no "spiritual awareness" and never had.
Even though we cannot know others experience we know they have experiences like ourselves and we can connect through this such as together enjoying the experience of say a sunset or a starrt night out in the desert in awe and speechless each knowing they experienced something beyond the physical world they inhabited.
Are you confused by serotonin?
These are powerful experiences throughout history and often the basis and motivation for great discoveries and insights into the human condition and nature something we have known for millenia.
Emotions and psychology. No mystical supernaturalism is needed.
Actually that repeating a stock standard answer for human exprtession of conscious experience as something real is a good representation of how skeptics and materialist see consciousness and spirituality. They relegate the majority of the world to being deluded and only a special elite group have true knowledge. I don't think this helps in dismissing this aspect of being human. Its a real part of us.
I see spirituality as a consequence of brain meat. So what. Your counter interpretation is not evidence.
But it also doesn't mean human experiences are all superstition and delusions. We know this is the case because we live by experience everyday and in fact its the only aspect we know is real and our experiences cannot just all be cast out because they don't conform to some concept of how we should know reality through naturalism. Otherwise we are literally rejecting our own mind, agency, consciousness and sense or reality.
No we are not.
 
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Are you really wanting the paper on Inflation theory when its a mainstream accepted theory based on the paper. If its accepted theory then its backed by the science within peer reviwed papers. Are you saying Inflation theory is not backed by peer review.

So I should not have to show you papers on Inflation theory and only show you the relevent parts like how inflation theory predicts Multiverses which I have already done. The article which mentions why scientists say a multiverse in inevitable if inflation theory is correct.

The cosmological model of eternal inflation and the transition from chance to biological evolution in the history of life

If you are getting your cosmology info from "pub med" you are doing it wrong. The paper in question was from a biological journal published by a biologist of some kind. Try a real source next time.
 
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No you are reading your own confirmation bias into the physics.
While eternal inflation theory predicts multiverses, the multiverse theory of different physical parameters for each universe is unfalsifiable as no information of these parameters is available being limited by the speed of light and therefore beyond the particle horizon of our own universe.
But surely no one is proposing that these alternative universes just happened to have the same parameters as ours over and over again. That would be really weird. I though it was based on QM where each new universe could end up with any random set of varying outcomes.
Since it is unfalsifiable multiverse theory has been criticized by many scientists for being for philosophical rather than scientific.
Then like I said that brings Inflation theory into question when then brings the BB under question as a big part of addressing the anomelies in the BB was inflation.
The recession velocities of galaxies can exceed the speed of light c due to metric expansion of our universe but information can’t which is why a particle horizon for our universe exists.
If the recession velocity of a galaxy is greater than 2c photons emitted will take an infinite time to reach the observer.
I am sure I read somewhere that the physiucs will break down at the edge of our universe. Or maybe it was in Black Holes. So what happens to time then.
As I explained to you in a previous post quantum information from entangled particles is statistical in nature and while it can travel "instantaneously", it is not information which is limited to the speed c.
So is it still information that can travel instantly. I am sure I read somewhere that experiements showed that entangled cells could communicate information instantly. Is not that actual cellular information that is being communicated from one body cell to another. I can't find the original I was reading but I think it was related to these articles.

Quantum Entanglement in Biological System
Quantum biology: Algae evolved to switch quantum coherence on and off
Quantum biology: Algae evolved to switch quantum coherence on and off
Who are you trying to kid?
Do I need to remind you of promoting crackpot theories such as Fleming, the cherry picking of anomalies to create the impression of cosmology being in crisis or suggesting problems in galaxy formation is fatal to BB cosmology.

This forms the pretext of enabling your real agenda that science can be made complete by incorporating the supernatural in the guise of intelligent design.
No like I said science should be completely seperate from the supernatural. You cannot measure the supernatural through science.
The footnote in your posts is a dead giveaway.
Science is getting closer and closer to the very core of existence. The closer they get the more they will see that there had to be a creator.
Yes but what I was trying to express what to let science do its job, it doesn't need any supernatural twist because science itself will be the witness of God.

I mean the thread is about whether Math reveals the mind of God so I don't think theres any hidden agenda. That is the very question of the thread.
 
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Do they? What are these things that can't be measured. Name. Them. (I suspect we'll get some of the things that follow, but there is no need to ramble on first. Let's get this started.)
The reason I concentrate on the philosophy is I think the evdience for a reality beyond the physical causes cannot be directly verified through observations. But we can certainly argue their validity as we experience these non physical realities everytime we have a conscious experience. This is primarily a mental state seperate from the physical world. So consciousness itself is evidence of a real thing that cannot be reduced to the physical.

From that we can begin to list transcedent realities like the experience of colours, pain, awe, beauty basically any experience where we can subjectively feel what its like to experience that event. Basically these conscious experience are real, we know consciousness is real and yet this cannot be explained by physical causes.

Thomas Nagal summed this up best with his paper "What is it like to be a Bat". I like this video explanation as it explains the paper in easy to understand terms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaZbCctlll4&ab_channel=JeffreyKaplan
The undetectable is "more real" than "reality". Come on, man, this is nonsensical.
Our conscious experience is the only real thing we can know. It comes first, in fact everything comes through our experience. So in that sense what we experience is more real than some proposed concept of an objective world outside our minds. We cannot get outside our minds to check if the 'matter' is something real. So our consciousness is more real and yet we cannot physiucally see it of test it as a physical thing.
I've never experienced anything beyond the natural world. Keep me out of your claim.
Lol perhaps you have but you don't realize it. I mean being able to go to a place in your mind, a memory, to see a loved ones face in your mind, to imagine something beyond your current situation are in some ways realities you can tap into that can effect you, your life and your reality.

I think this is the new frontier in research, how the Mind and consciousness influences reality. This is such a large field from spirituality and consciousness beyond brain to theory of mind, mind over matter, agency, free will, much of the behavioural sciences and evolution.

Thats because science has not been able to incorporate the subjective into the equation as far as what is fundemental reality. Science is a 3rd person methodology so it cannot say anything about subjective conscious experience. But our conscious experience is all we have so if anything is going to reveal a deeper reality it is our 1st person experience and not a 3rd person measure.

Its not until we can incorporate the subjective experience in to the equation that we will truely understand fundemental reality. This seems to be the road block to most sciences now in how do we fit the subject, the observer, agency, our sense of control into the picture without just dismissing it all as some epiphenomena like its a by product and not central when our experience tells us it is central and we are not deluded.
This goes back to the same question I asked above. What is this thing you think we are observing?
In this case take consciousness as this seems the basis for everything. The scientific reductionist view of consciousness will be its an epiphenomena of a physical system. So its an effect of a physical mechanism and thus falls with the casual closure of the physical. But the on the other hand the same evidence is seen by many that consciousness is a real thing beyond the physical brain. Two different explanations for the same phenomena. Ones naturalistic the other beyond naturalistic.
Or not, because nothing you wrote in the block above was actually about time. (And you seem to now reference dark matter and dark energy as non physical. Bizarre.)
Thats because its not just about 'time'. Its about how human made concepts of time or anything can be seen differently in more transcedent terms. The question is what does time represent. We don't really understand the fundemnetal nature of time.

The reference to dark energy and matter relates to the same reasoning of how quantifying reality through science, making reality fall within the causal closure of the physical doesn't account for dark energy and matter which is not yet verified as a thing that falls within the physical.

So really 95% of reality is a mystery to science. How can any measure that can only explain only 5% of reality ever explain the other 95%. I think it would need a massive shift in thinking.
Now we move to the "inner reality" portion of the show...
Why not the inner reality is the only reality. So of course its always a show for us.
I have no "spiritual awareness" and never had.
Depends what you think spirituality is. I think experience the awe of stars on a clear night is similar to a spiritual experience. You cannot help but feel a part of something bigger than yourself and wonder of things beyond this world. Its a natural thing for humans to do. In fact we are born spiritual in a way. We have this natural belief in ideas like the soul and life beyond this world. Its a natural human quality.
Are you confused by serotonin?
Yes of course a materialists will always reduce experiences down to chemicals and electrical signals. All our sense of self and our experiences we believe so real are just fobbed off as silly tricks and delusions caused by chemicals to help us survive. We become robots.
Emotions and psychology. No mystical supernaturalism is needed.
Except when it comes to free will and agency. That humans can control what happens in the world. Where they are not just passive players like puppets pulled along by biology and physics but can actually intervene are actively change things.
I see spirituality as a consequence of brain meat. So what. Your counter interpretation is not evidence.
There is evidence from a number of sources. Even the idea that spirituality is a consequence of brain meat which is similar to consciousness is nothing but the physical brain is challenged by many scientists like Nagal above who offer good arguements.
No we are not.
If our conscious experience is not real, that what we experience is not a real representation or can reveal reality then we are rejecting a big part of who we are. Materialism would have it that our dreams, experiences, sense of a real self in the world that can change things, is all a delusion designed by evolution to help us survive.
 
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If you are getting your cosmology info from "pub med" you are doing it wrong. The paper in question was from a biological journal published by a biologist of some kind. Try a real source next time.
I literally only linked it for explaining how the BB, Inflation and the Multiverse theory are linked for which the paper explains and is correct.

Garriga and Vilenkin showed that, in a finite time, the content of each O-region can assume only a finite number of states and, accordingly, any O-region has a finite, even if unimaginably vast (on the order of 10^10150), number of unique macroscopic, coarse-grain histories [1]. Effectively, the finiteness of the number of coarse-grain histories appears to be a straightforward corollary of quantum uncertainty [2]. The same conclusion is independently reached through a completely different approach, namely, the so-called holographic bound on the amount of entropy that can be contained in any finite region of the universe [1,11,12]. Combined, eternal inflation, the finiteness of the number of unique coarse-grain histories, and the inevitable quantum randomness at the Big Bing (the beginning of time for each universe) lead to the straightforward and striking conclusion that each history permitted by conservation laws of physics is repeated an infinite number of times in the multiverse and, actually, in each of the infinite number of infinite (island) universes [2,11].
 
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So is it still information that can travel instantly. I am sure I read somewhere that experiements showed that entangled cells could communicate information instantly. Is not that actual cellular information that is being communicated from one body cell to another. I can't find the original I was reading but I think it was related to these articles.

Quantum Entanglement in Biological System
https://vixra.org/pdf/1712.0129v1.pdf
vixra? Really, Steve? This is a new low.

For those unaware, "vixra" is a open pseudo-science platform for publishing "papers" on their pseudo-science. (This particular author seems to have posted 6000+ papers in 13 years on a variety of topics. Not credible at all.
 
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The reason I concentrate on the philosophy is I think the evdience for a reality beyond the physical causes cannot be directly verified through observations. But we can certainly argue their validity as we experience these non physical realities everytime we have a conscious experience. This is primarily a mental state seperate from the physical world. So consciousness itself is evidence of a real thing that cannot be reduced to the physical.

From that we can begin to list transcedent realities like the experience of colours, pain, awe, beauty basically any experience where we can subjectively feel what its like to experience that event. Basically these conscious experience are real, we know consciousness is real and yet this cannot be explained by physical causes.

Then you seem to be posting on the wrong board. Philosophical arguments should be taken to the philosophy section. If you want to discuss things relative to science, you should not be bothered when subjective experience and philosophy are dismissed in response.
 
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vixra? Really, Steve? This is a new low.

For those unaware, "vixra" is a open pseudo-science platform for publishing "papers" on their pseudo-science. (This particular author seems to have posted 6000+ papers in 13 years on a variety of topics. Not credible at all.
Ok I don't know these things though I should have checked. But what I am wondering is if the content is correct. I am pretty sure I have seen similar papers in other journals on this same finding.

Perhaps these ones which are in more credible journals

The future of quantum biology
Biological systems are dynamical, constantly exchanging energy and matter with the environment in order to maintain the non-equilibrium state synonymous with living. Developments in observational techniques have allowed us to study biological dynamics on increasingly small scales. Such studies have revealed evidence of quantum mechanical effects, which cannot be accounted for by classical physics, in a range of biological processes. Quantum biology is the study of such processes, and here we provide an outline of the current state of the field, as well as insights into future directions.

13 - A perspective on possible manifestations of entanglement in biological systems

Quantum Biology and the Potential Role of Entanglement and Tunneling in Non-Targeted Effects of Ionizing Radiation: A Review and Proposed Model


Chronobiology Meets Quantum Biology: A New Paradigm Overlooking the Horizon?

 
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Then you seem to be posting on the wrong board. Philosophical arguments should be taken to the philosophy section. If you want to discuss things relative to science, you should not be bothered when subjective experience and philosophy are dismissed in response.
Well I think it may well be somewhere in between science and philosophy. Both need to be discussed so both forums will involve either philosophy dicussed in a science forum along with the science or science is discussed in a philosophy forum with philosophy. In some ways science and philosophy belong together.

I would imagine most of the science topics discussed in science forums will have a fair amount of philosophizing going on lol.
 
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Ok I don't know these things though I should have checked. But what I am wondering is if the content is correct. I am pretty sure I have seen similar papers in other journals on this same finding.

Perhaps these ones which are in more credible journals

The future of quantum biology
Biological systems are dynamical, constantly exchanging energy and matter with the environment in order to maintain the non-equilibrium state synonymous with living. Developments in observational techniques have allowed us to study biological dynamics on increasingly small scales. Such studies have revealed evidence of quantum mechanical effects, which cannot be accounted for by classical physics, in a range of biological processes. Quantum biology is the study of such processes, and here we provide an outline of the current state of the field, as well as insights into future directions.

13 - A perspective on possible manifestations of entanglement in biological systems

Quantum Biology and the Potential Role of Entanglement and Tunneling in Non-Targeted Effects of Ionizing Radiation: A Review and Proposed Model

Chronobiology Meets Quantum Biology: A New Paradigm Overlooking the Horizon?

None of these say anything about any "non-physical" effect in biology or QM. ( I think that is what you are trying to push.)
 
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But surely no one is proposing that these alternative universes just happened to have the same parameters as ours over and over again. That would be really weird. I though it was based on QM where each new universe could end up with any random set of varying outcomes.
Your response did not address the unfalsifiable nature of multiverses which was the point I was making.
In the many worlds interpretation of QM since we exist in these alterative universes, the parameters are the same otherwise we could not exist.
This is distinctively different from multiverses created from eternal inflation as the parameters are not expected to be same.
Then like I said that brings Inflation theory into question when then brings the BB under question as a big part of addressing the anomelies in the BB was inflation.
Which BB are you referring to here, the BB that occurred at cosmological time t = 0 or the hot BB at t = 10⁻³⁰s?
The BB at t=0 which comes before inflation is not an anomaly, it is an unknown as we do not have a quantum gravity theory which explains the universe preceding the Planck time of 10⁻⁴³ s.

Inflation theory is not unfalsifiable, it makes a prediction that primordial gravitational waves should leave a particular mode of photon polarization on the CMB.
This B-mode polarization was falsely reported in 2014 when was it discovered metallic dust in our own galaxy can also produce similar signals and the current problem is to differentiate and separate out these signals.

Since the inflation theory is falsifiable it doesn’t lead to problems in the hot BB which comes after it.
I am sure I read somewhere that the physiucs will break down at the edge of our universe. Or maybe it was in Black Holes. So what happens to time then.
It is about black holes; inside the event horizon of a black hole the mathematics indicates time takes on properties of length and vice versa.
So is it still information that can travel instantly. I am sure I read somewhere that experiements showed that entangled cells could communicate information instantly. Is not that actual cellular information that is being communicated from one body cell to another. I can't find the original I was reading but I think it was related to these articles.

Quantum Entanglement in Biological System
Quantum biology: Algae evolved to switch quantum coherence on and off
Quantum biology: Algae evolved to switch quantum coherence on and off
On the contrary what each paper is stating in the entangled state, energy can cover all possible routes simultaneously to reach the reaction centre, however when the entangled state undergoes decoherence or wave collapse the energy takes the quickest route to the reaction centre.
From each paper.

"Once a light-harvesting protein has captured sunlight, it needs to get that trapped energy to the reaction centre in the cell as quickly as possible, where the energy is converted into chemical energy for the organism.
It was assumed the energy gets to the reaction centre in a random fashion, like a drunk staggering home. But quantum coherence would allow the energy to test every possible pathway simultaneously before travelling via the quickest route.
"

The quickest route does not mean instantaneous time.

No like I said science should be completely seperate from the supernatural. You cannot measure the supernatural through science.

Yes but what I was trying to express what to let science do its job, it doesn't need any supernatural twist because science itself will be the witness of God.

I mean the thread is about whether Math reveals the mind of God so I don't think theres any hidden agenda. That is the very question of the thread.
So why are you posting this in a science forum?
 
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Well I think it may well be somewhere in between science and philosophy. Both need to be discussed so both forums will involve either philosophy dicussed in a science forum along with the science or science is discussed in a philosophy forum with philosophy. In some ways science and philosophy belong together.
There is nothing "between" science and philosophy.
I would imagine most of the science topics discussed in science forums will have a fair amount of philosophizing going on lol.
Not if you know the difference between the two.
 
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Depends what you think spirituality is.
Spirits and stuff.
I think experience the awe of stars on a clear night is similar to a spiritual experience. You cannot help but feel a part of something bigger than yourself and wonder of things beyond this world. Its a natural thing for humans to do.
These are called emotions.
In fact we are born spiritual in a way. We have this natural belief in ideas like the soul and life beyond this world. Its a natural human quality.
Speak for yourself. This ain't me.
Yes of course a materialists will always reduce experiences down to chemicals and electrical signals. All our sense of self and our experiences we believe so real are just fobbed off as silly tricks and delusions caused by chemicals to help us survive. We become robots.
Bleep, blorp.
Except when it comes to free will and agency. That humans can control what happens in the world. Where they are not just passive players like puppets pulled along by biology and physics but can actually intervene are actively change things.
On what basis do you think you have free will?
There is evidence from a number of sources. Even the idea that spirituality is a consequence of brain meat which is similar to consciousness is nothing but the physical brain is challenged by many scientists like Nagal above who offer good arguements.
I prefer evidence. Arguments are for the dinner table.
If our conscious experience is not real, that what we experience is not a real representation or can reveal reality then we are rejecting a big part of who we are. Materialism would have it that our dreams, experiences, sense of a real self in the world that can change things, is all a delusion designed by evolution to help us survive.
They are real brain states. Why do they need to be anything more?
 
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None of these say anything about any "non-physical" effect in biology or QM. ( I think that is what you are trying to push.)
No I was trying to find the articles on quantum entanglement and how cells can communicate instantly.
 
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No I was trying to find the articles on quantum entanglement and how cells can communicate instantly.

Instant communication isn't real. No information travels faster than light. (It's been tested in delay lines with entangled photons.)
 
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