[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Originally Posted by LeoM

There is not only the mystery of life's origin as a purported result of random processes.

Leo, do you realize how difficult it is for me not to write off your entire post when you start out calling evolution random? Do you understand why it is not a pure random process?

There is also the mystery of the basic laws of nature and the cosmic constants - how they were determined and why they are so curiously "fine-tuned" to produce an orderly, stable, habitable universe. There is the mystery of quantum mechanics, which seems to show that the mind impinges on physical reality in bizarre ways, and may even call into question the nature of physical reality as such. (Is it just a projection of the mind? A few physicists think so.) There is the mystery of consciousness and its relationship to the brain, the so-called "hard problem" of neurology - how do electrochemical impulses become thoughts? How does a physical system give rise to a nonphysical phenomenon like consciousness? And there is the ultimate mystery, existence itself. Why is there something rather than nothing? Why does anything exist at all? And why are our minds capable of understanding it, of formulating laws and equations that express basic cosmological relationships so elegantly? Also the brain receiver theory can account for the overwhelming evidence for psi and survival.

Yes, those are all fascinating questions. What do they have to do with the falsifiability of brain receiver theory?

Also, note that you cannot ask why there is something rather than nothing until you first ask if there is a reason why there is something rather than nothing and obtain a positive response.

~~ Paul