Chopra amazed by monkeys

Deepak Chopra is gobsmacked.

You'll never believe this guys! The monkeys totally learned to eat charcoal from the Universe

Monkeys have learned to eat charcoal to aid their digestion and are therefore “tapping into the basic fabric of the cosmos”.

Talk about a non-sequitur!

A red colobus monkey hanging out. Not tapping into the cosmos, just chillin' in his tree, being a monkey.

Deepak can’t believe that this could have come about by chance, (that argument sound familiar to anyone?), but instead of pointing to God, he’s pointing to an “intelligent universe”. He confuses learned behaviour with inherited traits and generally makes a bit of a fool of himself. I wonder how he thinks the human race got to where it is today without learning not to eat the red berries?

So, nothing new, but I got to put a photo of a cute monkey up and that makes me happy.

Woo! Bonus monkey!

Quantum Woo

We wish to state at the outset that in our view, the argument consists of merest possibility piled upon merest possibility teetering upon a tippy foundation of “might-be-for-all-we-know’s

- Grusch & Churchland

Consciousness. Difficult to define, let alone isolate and test. It is a question that keeps neuroscientists, philosphers and psychologists up at night… but Ervin Laszlo sleeps soundly, because he’s already worked it out.

Quantum Consciousness.

If you are anything like me, your first thought was probably, “what the fuck is quantum consciousness?”, your second thought would have been to forward the article to all the physicists you know, just to annoy them. Lastly, you’d get on google and try to make sense of the steaming pile of nonsense Laszlo has spewed onto the Huffington Post.

Did you know the LHC confirms the Bible?

Oh yeah, ’cause the guys in Answers in Genesis say it is so.

You see, because the LHC gives us information about the early universe, God did it.

Confused? Me too. You see, God said that he would uphold physical laws and promised to keep them constant (um – where does he say that?) and because the LHC works, physical laws must be constant and because no one promised the “secular scientists” that physical laws are constant, LHC = God.

This is such torturous logic, my brain is starting to implode.