kenneth harrow
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hi augustini think it is fair to say quantum is recognized as established physics, and has not been questioned as such for almost 100 years; at least since bohr in the 1930s.in any rate i lean on it, and relativity, heavily in my recent book Space and Time in African Cinema. I also depend on Karen Barad for my approach to the issue of the inter-relationship among things, what i call entr'acte.
i use that concept to argue, much as you do, that the energy and matter of the universe is interconnected; and that much as the observers in a quantum physics experiment cannot be objectively separated from what they observe, so too is it the case in cinema that the film being observed and the viewers, as well as filmmakers, are engaged in entr'action continually. in the process, what is being created is not only the film we experience, but time and space as being created by that entr'action.if we want to find religious beliefs that correspond t these notions, it wouldn't be hard, as you are doing. i consider those beliefs metaphorical expressions of the concept of the inter-reactions of the world.ken
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Quantum physics which is said to be non sensical by physicists explains very well the behaviour of matter at the atomic level and its the heart ofvthe digital economyIn the same vein isese might ,by the adherents of other faith be non sensical and embarsssing but at a fundamental level it impacts very positively and patently on those who practice it
Before the arrival of foreigners on yotuba soil the yorubas had igblo oba .the kings forest.igbo dudu the dangerious forest,igbo olorun. Gods forest but yorubas were told these were all nonsese so the forest were cut down for furniture and construction one of the major reasons for climate crisis today the wòrld should listen to the yorubas who have a propensity for livin in armony with natureÌsese calls for return to the spirit it calls for spiritual rejuvenation. Spiritual rebirth. It is pragmatism in usa .empiricism in Europe but spirituality in Yoruba world the spirit dying or dead then the environment decays along with it.the spirit dead or ding gives rise to political decay.,social decay,economic ,decay,infrastructural decay and more so the need to return to the spirit. For the rebirth and the re awakening of the yoruba--
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Kenneth HarrowEntraction. Thanks for taking me into a new territory. I would have to take a good look.
hi augustini think it is fair to say quantum is recognized as established physics, and has not been questioned as such for almost 100 years; at least since bohr in the 1930s.in any rate i lean on it, and relativity, heavily in my recent book Space and Time in African Cinema. I also depend on Karen Barad for my approach to the issue of the inter-relationship among things, what i call entr'acte.
i use that concept to argue, much as you do, that the energy and matter of the universe is interconnected; and that much as the observers in a quantum physics experiment cannot be objectively separated from what they observe, so too is it the case in cinema that the film being observed and the viewers, as well as filmmakers, are engaged in entr'action continually. in the process, what is being created is not only the film we experience, but time and space as being created by that entr'action.if we want to find religious beliefs that correspond t these notions, it wouldn't be hard, as you are doing. i consider those beliefs metaphorical expressions of the concept of the inter-reactions of the world.ken
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From: 'Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com>
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Isese, Quantum physics and climate change
Quantum physics which is said to be non sensical by physicists explains very well the behaviour of matter at the atomic level and its the heart ofvthe digital economyIn the same vein isese might ,by the adherents of other faith be non sensical and embarsssing but at a fundamental level it impacts very positively and patently on those who practice it
Before the arrival of foreigners on yotuba soil the yorubas had igblo oba .the kings forest.igbo dudu the dangerious forest,igbo olorun. Gods forest but yorubas were told these were all nonsese so the forest were cut down for furniture and construction one of the major reasons for climate crisis today the wòrld should listen to the yorubas who have a propensity for livin in armony with natureÌsese calls for return to the spirit it calls for spiritual rejuvenation. Spiritual rebirth. It is pragmatism in usa .empiricism in Europe but spirituality in Yoruba world the spirit dying or dead then the environment decays along with it.the spirit dead or ding gives rise to political decay.,social decay,economic ,decay,infrastructural decay and more so the need to return to the spirit. For the rebirth and the re awakening of the yoruba--
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maybe we can point to one difference between science and religion in this: science never demands belief. rather, it asks you to be convinced by its argument. the argument can be based on observation and then formulae or equations that try to explain what is observed. one of the basic premises of science is that any proposition should confront the challenge of being disproved.
when galileo came to propose his heliocentic model he ran into the church's insistence on belief. in the end the church told galileo that he had to confess that they were right about the sun going around the earth, although the model galileo proposed, based on his observations and the equations that made the most sense, contradicted that. faced with a death threat, he yielded (though famously was said to have muttered, e pure si muove—and yet, it moves (i.e.the earth).
what i like about science is its openness to challenges. what i don't like about dogmatic faiths is when they are closed to challenges—when they say, my way or the highway, and put a price on the head of those who dare challenge them.
rushdie paid the price for his challenge by losing his eye last year to a fanatic. if it wasn't bad enough that we have muslim fundamentalists performing such atrocities on women in pakistan, now we have anti-muslim fanatics like the nutcase burning the qur'an in sweden.
in both cases science and religion, at their best, are soiled. when tolerance and knowledge are sacrificed, conversation closes down. we need open conversation to be human in the fullest sense.
ken
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Arguably, science (including abstract science) and the “spritual” have the same ends but different means, but more problematically, they drink from the same water and thus they possibly have eternal interconnection and interdependence.
On Thursday, July 13, 2023, 1:51 PM, Harrow, Kenneth <har...@msu.edu> wrote:
Hi toyin, physics crosses spirituality in the questions that arise in both. Where did we come from, and, indirectly what is this world we inhabit. The only answers i like as credible are scientific; the only answers that lead us to speculate without experimentation and mathematics are spiritual. They are separate realms of speculation, if you will,but address similar questions. It is a mistake to answer the questions of one domain with answers from the other.But each should inspire the other. The questions science is led to ask—where did we come from, where is the universe headed—how could we not explore them when ancient texts that purported to provided answers are still held to be holy or revered. Their holiness should have zero, nothing, to do with their meaningfulness as current answers to those basic questions in terms of our knowledge of today. But they are rich texts when opened to all the other relations and issues that swirl around them. If you take any myth with its gods, its tales can provokethe deepest of reflections. But if you misapply them, hoist them onto the wrong pedestal, you’ve actually betrayed them.A last point: the beauty of science is less that it provides answers than that it opens questions; the beauty of scripture is the same.Those who misuse them claim they authorize answers that exclude others.An example of the misusers: the authorizers of fatwas who ban books, like Satanic verses. Those were people who didn’t even read it, or understand it, because if they had, they wouldn’t have banned it.When it is banned, so too are our own interpretations; we are all victims of the fatwas of today, the censors of today.
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We need to be careful though not to describe physics as identical with spirituality.
They may be analogous,comparable, but not identical.
ThanksToyin
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Kenneth HarrowEntraction. Thanks for taking me into a new territory. I would have to take a good look.
hi augustini think it is fair to say quantum is recognized as established physics, and has not been questioned as such for almost 100 years; at least since bohr in the 1930s.in any rate i lean on it, and relativity, heavily in my recent book Space and Time in African Cinema. I also depend on Karen Barad for my approach to the issue of the inter-relationship among things, what i call entr'acte.
i use that concept to argue, much as you do, that the energy and matter of the universe is interconnected; and that much as the observers in a quantum physics experiment cannot be objectively separated from what they observe, so too is it the case in cinema that the film being observed and the viewers, as well as filmmakers, are engaged in entr'action continually. in the process, what is being created is not only the film we experience, but time and space as being created by that entr'action.if we want to find religious beliefs that correspond t these notions, it wouldn't be hard, as you are doing. i consider those beliefs metaphorical expressions of the concept of the inter-reactions of the world.ken
kenneth harrow
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Isese, Quantum physics and climate change
Quantum physics which is said to be non sensical by physicists explains very well the behaviour of matter at the atomic level and its the heart ofvthe digital economyIn the same vein isese might ,by the adherents of other faith be non sensical and embarsssing but at a fundamental level it impacts very positively and patently on those who practice it
Before the arrival of foreigners on yotuba soil the yorubas had igblo oba .the kings forest.igbo dudu the dangerious forest,igbo olorun. Gods forest but yorubas were told these were all nonsese so the forest were cut down for furniture and construction one of the major reasons for climate crisis today the wòrld should listen to the yorubas who have a propensity for livin in armony with natureÌsese calls for return to the spirit it calls for spiritual rejuvenation. Spiritual rebirth. It is pragmatism in usa .empiricism in Europe but spirituality in Yoruba world the spirit dying or dead then the environment decays along with it.the spirit dead or ding gives rise to political decay.,social decay,economic ,decay,infrastructural decay and more so the need to return to the spirit. For the rebirth and the re awakening of the yoruba--
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