Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Black Holes, Time Travel, and the Origin of the Universe | Dr. Brian Keating | EP 348" video.

  1. At 1:09:26 it seems that Dr. Keating considers "mind" and "brain" equivalent terms. Is this conflation merely a convenient linguistic device? I can see how a proper distinction might be considered unnecessarily difficult in the immediate context of the discussion. Perhaps he'll get a round to clarifying the distinction later on.
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  2. Yes..."No better prize..."
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  3. Get this guy together with Wal Thornhill and see what happens! Could be great!
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  4. At 1:23:00, "the sea of probability"...the philosopher's "Primordial Chaotic Void"... We are frozen in a cosmic moment of recognition/realization belonging to the Primordial Void, that chaos of all-potential that provides the backdrop of existence. In the beginning--literally--, It recognized the impossible: repetition in the state of the Void. Being utterly chaotic, only random organizational states should be possible. But the impossible happened: all tied up in this instantaneous recognition are principles of "reflection", then "memory", then "multiplicity/unity", then BANG, God (consciousness) is "born", from an error in cosmic nature, a mistake that explained itself in terms of "time". WE and our entire existence IS the process of experiencing to resolution this frozen stare-down of the Void and God, as they grapple with the incongruous state of recognition precipitated by the error. Time was, both, the manifestation of the error, and the mechanism of its solution; it had to be...contained. Existence is how Time contains the Error. We are an integral part of the resolution of this cosmic error. As loci of consciousness, we are agents, witting or unwitting, of the universe as it evolves to contain, and then absorb the Error. This cosmic maturation process is the purpose of ours and all existence--but NOT selfishly, not for our own benefit, but for the benefit of the Void. "Correction" of the Error is by the integration of consciousness, which is essentially the nature of the Error. But there's still no going back; no going back to an insensible Void comprising the totality of existence. In some form or manner or other, we're "here" to stay. Order/God manifests/actualizes the Void/All Potential. That actualization harkens to the potential of it still in the Void. The Void responds characteristically with an influence of disorder that has the effect of powering the manifestation, from the inside out! That's what I think of as "God's Grace"...
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