First Law: The Law Of Pure Potentiality

SF, the good SF at lest, is working on the same big questions we keep asking as human beings, but from a place of scientific understanding rather than assuming everything is God-made:

• What is our purpose in an infinite universe that does not seem to care about us?
• Are we alone ...

1. Physicalism says that everything in our world is physical.
2. If physicalism is true, everything in out world is physical including consciousness.
3. But we can conceive of a “zombie world", a physical world without consciousness then,
4. Physicalism is proven false,...

Most may think of consciousness as something above our physical being - as if your mind were driving your body. But to accept this as a scientific principle would discount the laws of physics.

Everything we know about the universe tells us that reality consists of physical atoms and th...