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I have left the Church of Scientology
I am still very much a Scientologist - but I am not a member of the Church of Scientology.
See my detailed write-up on why.
It boils down to personal integrity. I can no longer be part of an organization where the management is lying, harassing and suppressing the free will of its members.
The Scientology philosophy is a goldmine. The church has long since departed from its teachings.
Check out my new blog:
Geir Isene: Straight talk
on Scientology.
A subjective collapse theory
What makes the quantum mechanics wave function collapse?
This has been one of the great questions giving work to physicists ever since Erwin Schrodinger came up with his mathematical explanation for the wave/particle duality. In the aftermath of the mathematics came philosophical questions like: Is the universe objective? Does it exist if we are not observing it? Are there many universes? Coexisting?
WOIM
Having worked extensively with flowcharts, relational charts, Venn diagrams, Warnier-Orr diagrams and other ways of representing processes, states, instructions, programs and data models, I knew there was something missing. It would be great to have a way of representing anything - any state or action - in a way that would be more conducive to collaboration.
Beauty
When scientists talk about "beauty", they often refer to a scientific beauty derived from "simplicity" - embracing conciseness, economy of concepts, brevety of mathematical expression, and breadth of application [1].
The search and longing for scientific beauty has paid off. Scores of theories have been proven right after scientists have discarded more ugly theories in favor of the simpler ones. The same with philosophy.
Do you really have a choice?
On the subject of choice, there are two options: Either you really have a choice, or the appearance that you may choose is simply an illusion.
The subject of choice may be referred to as the subject of free will. So the question may be rephrased to: "Do you really possess potential free will?"
Since there are many situations where people seemingly cannot choose what they want, we will refer to free will as potential free will.
So, you either have potential free will or no free will. In the latter case, it may not even be called will as everything is then simply a series of events with no will involved.