Don Page - How Complexity and Emergence Create a Cosmos?

The universe began as a simple hot bath of particles and forces. How then the vast diversity of things we find on earth today? Much depends on the principles of ‘complexity’ and ’emergence’. What are they? How does each work and how do they work together?

Don N. Page is a Canadian theoretical physicist at the University of Alberta, Canada.

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[Druffmaul]

What went wrong with the audio here? Majorly distracting.

[robokou]

This is perhaps _the worst_ Closer To Truth video I've ever watched; and I say this as a Christian.

The audio is bad, but not nearly as bad as listening to this guy's ridiculous theology. 🤦🏿‍♂️💯

[Jinxed]

Once I hear the words, "I think" "I believe" "it seems, " etc etc. I don't mind listening, but my science receptors go to sleep.

[jamesruscheinski]

how is the quantum wave function measured into classic physical nature and continue as quantum wave function for every possibility? can both exist at the same time for every possibility? is there a cycle of measurement followed by recoherence of quantum wave function that continues on?

[jamesruscheinski]

in developing or evolving different possibilities can quantum mechanic wave function be considered to have free will?

[Eucalypten]

I stopped at "which I believe God created"

[Jinxed]

Even from a theological standpoint, this must amount to absolute malarkey.

[heresa_notion_]

"The light that goeth through the lens, knoweth not where it goes, except by how the lens is pointed and how clear it is. It does not matter how the lens arrived; the fact of its clarity and position will give the light new possibilities. Thus determinism is itself determined both by what composes it and the possibilities that are possible of it."

As the particles in my brain are completely responsible for the above paragraph, I thought I'd better quote it (also quoting -- and using stilted biblical-like language -- makes it seem more important).

[infinitygame]

Everything in this universe is interlink and entangled to something else, your mind also, thats the fundamental law and your free will is also entangled and linked to some other will, understand, where is your free will

[rosiekrupp]

Probably he meant for human kind dystopian future waiting for all ignorant people

[SRAVALM]

This man's mind, his methodology or mental tool box, he utilizes for inquiring of things that participate in time, are transient, mutable, measurable, enmattered, but is not an appropriate methodology in inquiring the Agathon. The wiseman use the term juxtaposition in an affirmative way, first in trying to grasp this, ... God, and its antinomies(small as an atom, more vast than the cosmos)....but, this is really the fault of the mind and the mind interpolates and superimposes it's constructs and familiarities onto things. The mind is what all the wiseman teach that must be overcome.
We know of hottness from what is cold, and coldness from what is hot, and smallness from what is tall and vice versa – it's good for approximation in phenomena, but God is transcendent i.e., not subject to time, not spatial or temporal, not of mass and magnitude. All such is phenomenal and the paradigm of mind conditioned by.

But it's ok....not everybody is ready. It's not easy.

[ForTheShieldz]

Turned off when he started talking of sky faries creating everything. 😢

[quirk]

Drivel. One man’s opinion based on fuck all

[enlilannunaki]

This guy seems very philosophically confused, or at least contradictory.

[eddenz]

Free will is a an essential part of the Christian faith. Determinism makes sin impossible or at least shifts the blame to God himself

[peweegangloku]

God created things from his eternally possessed energy. Everything about that is absolute free will and a deliberate action. Romans 1:20 speaks of "his ETERNAL POWER."

[jamesruscheinski]

could God bringing things into world be free will? God has free will in creation, causing to exist?