Just wanted to say that this seems to have been a really interesting thread. I have never found science so fascinating! Particularly the complexity of cause/effect models - from more rigidly determinist on the one hand to probabilistic on the other. Does this imply intelligent design or merely the existence of some other causal variable currently unknown? Does this imply order or chaos?
Does this mean life has a purpose or is completely random?
It's interesting too how the debate here has moved from concepts of reality to ways of approaching/exploring that reality. Do I wear a hat of specific purpose or do I take the hat off and explore with no fixed direction or objective? Do I acquire knowledge or develop awareness? Is knowledge about substance or relationships?
Very interesting questions...
best wishes
Ingrid
