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Agave is processed in Oaxaca to make mezcal.
Agave is processed in Oaxaca to make mezcal.
Five years later, Zenit and a team of researchers from three different universities proved that the traditional technique not only has sound scientific basis, but that the physics behind it is quite complex. Their findings were published in Scientific Reports.
"I think this research is so cool," says ethnobiologist América Minerva Delgado Lemus, who just published a book about mezcal production and was not involved in the study. "It's a much-needed dialogue between scientific and traditional knowledge."
Comment: For the universe to be 'capable of learning' implies some kind of intelligence. Right there, these scientists are on the cusp of acknowledging 'supra-consciousness', intelligence(s) other-than-human, and thus a break with the Scientific Materialism ushered in by Darwin and others.
The theory of intelligent design expounded by Michael Behe and others similarly proposes non-human intelligence 'behind' or informing matter. A 'machine-learning' universe is at least in small part an acknowledgement that dogmatic materialistic theories like Darwinism - in which everything happens randomly and without any purpose or order - have had 'their day in the Sun'.
Now is the time for religion and science to step together into the light of a Universe we term Divine Cosmic Mind. The Universe isn't just 'learning as it goes along'. It sees all - past, present and future...
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