I've been reading about Paul Davies using the thought experiments about "Maxwell's Demon" sorting atoms in a gas into high- and low-temperature bins, to extrapolate how some biological systems seem to bootstrap their way from lower information content to higher.
Along the way, I've come across various arguable talking points. One is that Maxwell's Demon is a paradox, because the Second Law of Thermodynamics is violated.
More recent scientific explanations say that this is not so, because the demon has to occasionally clear its memory of previous information about the atoms in the gas.
Ignored in both cases is that a demon is a supernatural being, and probably continually maintains part of its existence outside of our physical universe--since everyone assumes that the energy expended by the demon is "free", and that it doesn't require any physical food.
Likewise, one cannot assume that it keeps its brain entirely within our physical universe, and that its memory is as finite as ours.
In the same way, for Schrodinger's Cat to be in the binary state of Dead/Not Dead, you have to ignore most of what physically happens at death, and all of the spiritual transition (whatever that may or may not entail for a cat) as well.
A boomer apologizes, albeit without much clarity.
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs," Jesus said; Matthew 15:26.
I recently understood that I am spending my life in rebuilding spiritual and practical foundations that had been foolishly undermined by previous generations.
Several months ago I was reading a nonfiction book by Christian author Paul Tournier, and made it about three-quarters of the way through before being drawn away to other things.
When I picked it up this last week and finished reading it, I found references to about a dozen Bible passages that had come up in my daily Bible readings in the interim, mostly obscure Old Testament personages with a variety of afflictions; Tournier was a Swiss doctor famous for connecting his Christianity with his medical practice.
I also read a Christian fiction book this last week: Deadline, by Randy Alcorn. One day, what I read in the book mirrored my morning Bible reading on that same day.
"A work of creation was three-fold, an earthly trinity to match the heavenly; the Creative Idea, timeless and passionate, which is the image of the Father; the Creative Energy, begotten of the idea and working in time, which is the image of the Word; the Creative Power, the meaning of the work and its response in the individual soul, which is the image of the indwelling Spirit."
-- P. D. James, summarizing Dorothy L. Sayers' description
