The Map is the Territory

 

How can we know whether or not God exists?   Could a machine ever be conscious?  What can we know to be real? 

 

Pythagoras once said ‘All the world is numbers’, but perhaps it would be more accurate to say ‘All the world is models’.  Modern neuroscience views our experience of the world in terms of the model created by our brains.  Our scientific models allow us to understand its behaviour.  Robert Hamilton weaves together the latest developments in physics, neuroscience and philosophy to show that the universe can only be grasped through the lenses of such models.  In a dramatic turn, Anything Goes – A Philosophical Approach to Answering the God Question argues that this apparent limitation provides the key to unlocking the whole mystery.  From here, it is a short step to finally settling the question of whether or not God exists…