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From: hitlong@yahoo.com (gharnagel)
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Subject: Re: Why does the universe go to all the bother of =?UTF-8?B?ZXhpc3Rpbmc/?=
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:33:45 +0000
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 7:20:18 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:
>
> gharnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > "Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than
> > we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." -- J.B.S. Haldane
>
> Just talk. Haldane was a biologist, and not known for competence in
> physics or cosmology. The Universe is not an evolved biologcal system.

Are we sure of that?

> His naive psychologising about inherent limitations of the human
> brain is best ignored.

I don't know about that, but

"he described how he 'enjoyed the opportunity of killing people and
regarded this as a respectable relic of primitive man.'”

Did he have a troubling little psychological problem, or maybe
it was PTSD.

> Fortunatately Haldane himself saw that his sayings
> were 'suspicions' only,
>
> Jan

Well, I have suspicions about his suspicions.

"Nobel laureate Peter Medawar once referred to Haldane as, 'the
cleverest
man I ever knew'”

I consider his suspicions as "clever" :-)  Fortunately, it doesn't
seemed
to have prevented a sufficient number from trying to understand the
Cosmic
All anyway.