Re: God is an atheist!

2014-05-09 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote:



 On Thursday, May 8, 2014 11:45:32 AM UTC-4, telmo_menezes wrote:




 On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comwrote:



 On Thursday, May 8, 2014 9:40:58 AM UTC-4, telmo_menezes wrote:




 On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Alberto G. Corona agoc...@gmail.comwrote:


 In this -single universe- context, the fine tuning of the physical
 constants are miracles by the way, so the hypothesis is true.


 I tend to agree. This is why I reject the single universe -- it's an
 extraordinary claim with no evidences.


 Why would the expectation of singularity be any more extra-ordinary than
 the expectation of multiplicity?


 Because of the finely tuned physical constants.


 Finely tuned physical constants is consistent with a sense-primitive
 universe. Physics conforms to experience, so it is only finely tuned
 relative to an expectation of alternate, sense-independent physics.


Humm.. I think that a problem we have here, and I think that this is also a
source of your disagreement with Bruno, is that you somehow reject the idea
that mathematical symbols are representations of an underlaying abstraction.

I like the idea of subjugating physics to experience, it seems to be a
fertile path. I am more willing to accept that you explain away x = vt or f
= ma or e = mc^2 in this fashion than the physical constants. The previous
are relations, the constants are specificities. There is something
intuitively nasty with the idea that mathematics is unreasonably effective
at describing reality, but then these ugly, super-specific constants show
up. It offends me aesthetically, I cannot put it any other way. The MWI
recovers the simple beauty of it all. Can you explain away the constants in
a way that does not require arbitrary specificity?






 Our ordinary experience is that we share many common realities and that
 those realities are very consistent.


 I agree.


 In a multiverse, I would expect much more interruption of our
 expectations.


 Why?
 Suppose Everett is right. Is interpretation recovers the classical world
 from the many worlds. Why wouldn't that be enough?


 Because there would have to be many more worlds which are shades of
 semi-classical, non-classical, and non-sensical instead. Multiverse to me
 seems good for only one thing: To rescue our expectations of mechanism


Mechanism for me is not so much an expectation as it is a hope. It's the
hope that we live in a rational universe, as Gödel called it.


 and pimordial unconsciousness.


I'm not so sure about this. I tend to see the MWI in the context of
primordial consciousness.


 Once we admit that view is no less compulsive than anthropomorphism, then
 there is no reason to impose the machina ex deus of near-infinite
 multiplicity.


And what do we do then?






  I would not expect that singularity/unity would hold the kind of
 significance that it seems to for us.


 Why?


 Because in a MWI ontology, all uniqueness would be an irrelevant illusion.


 We are made of cells that are self-contained and interact only locally.
 Wouldn't that already break our sense of unity?


 We care about what is unique vs what is redundant. Why?


 Because organisms that are good at pattern recognition are more resilient
 that organisms that are not?


 Why would pattern recognition be related to uniqueness though?


Because the feeling of uniqueness seems to be related to our brain failing
to match a pattern or, putting it another way, to fail at a prediction.






 This assumible hypothesis means, by the multiverse assumption  that this
 has already happened somewhere somehow. And very well we may be, here and
 now, the product of it.


 Sure. I am fairly convinced that we already live inside such a
 simulation. That just means that the structure of the multi-verse is a
 fractal. Not so surprising, but fun to think about.


 I don't think that simulation of any kind is possible without a
 foundation of consciousness to be simulated in the first place. If that's
 true, and the universe is made of 100% genuine awareness, then the
 probability of a 'simulation' becomes trivial. Simulation does not exist,
 it is only an idea that genuine awareness has about the difference between
 direct and indirect awareness. The idea can be true locally, but not
 ultimately. In the absolute sense, nothing can be simulated.


 I think I agree. I see the simulation as just a set of things that can be
 experienced. If comp is true, and some Lovecraftian creature in a
 non-euclidian reality is running the universal dovetailer where we exist,
 it cannot really be said that the Great Old Ones created us. They just
 unleashed us, I guess. There's no point in starting a cult to worship them
 -- although there could be some entertainment value in that.


 Even so, Uberthulhu has the same problem that we do.


Poor Uberthulhu :)


 The explanatory gap is not explained, only miniaturized 

Re: God is an atheist!

2014-05-09 Thread John Clark
In much the same spirit take a look at this cartoon:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODetOE6cbbclist=PLECD9ACF9D6F1F8FF

  John K Clark
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On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:51 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote:

 Why does this sort of thing never work for me? It's almost like a higher
 power is determined to stop me. OK, let's try again...



 (​Or does God lie awake at nights wondering where HE came from?)

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Re: God is an atheist!

2014-05-08 Thread Kim Jones

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Apparently not.

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Re: God is an atheist!

2014-05-08 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List

What if God is a Boltzmann Brain? He is likely not, but what they heck, it's a 
shot at looking at the issue from another angle. Another thought, is thing of 
the Big Mind (shrug) as doing the multiverse using the Schrodinger universal 
wave function, and allow me to use hugh evertt the 3rd's interpretation, ok? 
This is a ultra-gigantic amount of cosmii to initiate biology inside of, a 
thankless task, that would poop anyone out (anthropomorphism here) even God. 
Let's not cling frantically to what Aquinas thought about God. Atheist 
Shmatheist. By the way your graphic or whatever couldn't appear on this boys 
email. 
 
 
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Re: God is an atheist!

2014-05-08 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Any theory that stand over non intelligent axioms has to accept an infinity
of multiverses, That may be refined, taking into account information=0
 etc, but I will not go further on that.

 That multiverse must include among other things the universes with gods ,
and the universes with goods that have miracles, and the universes with
gods that have miracles whose first miracle is the creation of the universe
by the god.

And what if certain kinds of miracles are one more among the many
 preconditions for a universe with intelligent beings for some reason that
we still don´t know? In this -single universe- context, the fine tuning of
the physical constants are miracles by the way, so the hypothesis is true.
The multiverse is the hypothesis neccessary in order to rule out the
miracle. What more -single universe- miracles that we still don´t know are
necessary for intelligent sentient human life?

Yet the mere existence of intelligence in this universe and the easily
acceptable hypothesis by naturalists that after some time we will be
capable to create or emulate worlds with simulated living beings or robots
in this universe that probably by the laws of robotics (Asimov et al) have
to virtually worship us in order to create or be part of an self
sustainable society...

This assumible hypothesis means, by the multiverse assumption  that this
has already happened somewhere somehow. And very well we may be, here and
now, the product of it.




2014-05-08 13:36 GMT+02:00 spudboy100 via Everything List 
everything-list@googlegroups.com:

 What if God is a Boltzmann Brain? He is likely not, but what they heck,
 it's a shot at looking at the issue from another angle. Another thought, is
 thing of the Big Mind (shrug) as doing the multiverse using the Schrodinger
 universal wave function, and allow me to use hugh evertt the 3rd's
 interpretation, ok? This is a ultra-gigantic amount of cosmii to initiate
 biology inside of, a thankless task, that would poop anyone out
 (anthropomorphism here) even God. Let's not cling frantically to
 what Aquinas thought about God. Atheist Shmatheist. By the way your graphic
 or whatever couldn't appear on this boys email.


 -Original Message-
 From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com
 To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com
 Sent: Thu, May 8, 2014 1:09 am
 Subject: God is an atheist!


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Re: God is an atheist!

2014-05-08 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.comwrote:

 Any theory that stand over non intelligent axioms has to accept an
 infinity of multiverses, That may be refined, taking into account
 information=0  etc, but I will not go further on that.


I would say that the anthropic principle allows for a dumb multiverse
where all the universes where you can actually exists contain the illusion
of intelligent design.



  That multiverse must include among other things the universes with gods ,
 and the universes with goods that have miracles, and the universes with
 gods that have miracles whose first miracle is the creation of the universe
 by the god.


I am not so sure of this. An infinity of universes does not imply that
there is a universe for which something is possible. You can have infinite
variations within certain constraints. For example: you can have the
infinite set of all the possible combinations of english characters and
never see a chinese character. It depends on the generative rule. I'm not
sure, for example, that a universal dove tailer produces all conceivable
universes -- to use a simple trick, it cannot produce a universe that was
not generated by computation. I would say that the MWI necessarily implies
the existence of worlds where deities appear to exist, but with two caveats:

- the probability of finding yourself in such a world is tremendously small;
- the deity is not stable, even if you find yourself in such a world, with
very high probability the deity will fail in the next instant.

I say this because the MWI assumes the wave equation, so the generative
rule already limits what's possible, even at infinity.

Is there some flaw in my reasoning?




 And what if certain kinds of miracles are one more among the many
  preconditions for a universe with intelligent beings for some reason that
 we still don´t know?


That could be the case, but then they are not miracles. They are just laws
of reality that we don't know about yet.


 In this -single universe- context, the fine tuning of the physical
 constants are miracles by the way, so the hypothesis is true.


I tend to agree. This is why I reject the single universe -- it's an
extraordinary claim with no evidences.


 The multiverse is the hypothesis neccessary in order to rule out the
 miracle. What more -single universe- miracles that we still don´t know are
 necessary for intelligent sentient human life?


Ruling out miracles is just an optimistic attitude: we assume that we can
understand. There's no way to prove this, it's just an attitude towards
knowledge. If we don't have this attitude, the alternative is to give up.
Given that his attitude gave us modern medicine, electricity and so on (the
so on includes the fact that we can have this debate at a distance), there
are utilitarian reasons to adopt it, if nothing else.



 Yet the mere existence of intelligence in this universe and the easily
 acceptable hypothesis by naturalists that after some time we will be
 capable to create or emulate worlds with simulated living beings or robots
 in this universe that probably by the laws of robotics (Asimov et al) have
 to virtually worship us in order to create or be part of an self
 sustainable society...


Why would they have to worship us? I don't see how that follows.



 This assumible hypothesis means, by the multiverse assumption  that this
 has already happened somewhere somehow. And very well we may be, here and
 now, the product of it.


Sure. I am fairly convinced that we already live inside such a simulation.
That just means that the structure of the multi-verse is a fractal. Not so
surprising, but fun to think about.

Telmo.






 2014-05-08 13:36 GMT+02:00 spudboy100 via Everything List 
 everything-list@googlegroups.com:

  What if God is a Boltzmann Brain? He is likely not, but what they heck,
 it's a shot at looking at the issue from another angle. Another thought, is
 thing of the Big Mind (shrug) as doing the multiverse using the Schrodinger
 universal wave function, and allow me to use hugh evertt the 3rd's
 interpretation, ok? This is a ultra-gigantic amount of cosmii to initiate
 biology inside of, a thankless task, that would poop anyone out
 (anthropomorphism here) even God. Let's not cling frantically to
 what Aquinas thought about God. Atheist Shmatheist. By the way your graphic
 or whatever couldn't appear on this boys email.


 -Original Message-
 From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com
 To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com
 Sent: Thu, May 8, 2014 1:09 am
 Subject: God is an atheist!


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Re: God is an atheist!

2014-05-08 Thread Craig Weinberg


On Thursday, May 8, 2014 9:40:58 AM UTC-4, telmo_menezes wrote:




 On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Alberto G. Corona 
 agoc...@gmail.comjavascript:
  wrote:
  

 In this -single universe- context, the fine tuning of the physical 
 constants are miracles by the way, so the hypothesis is true.


 I tend to agree. This is why I reject the single universe -- it's an 
 extraordinary claim with no evidences.


Why would the expectation of singularity be any more extra-ordinary than 
the expectation of multiplicity? Our ordinary experience is that we share 
many common realities and that those realities are very consistent. In a 
multiverse, I would expect much more interruption of our expectations. I 
would not expect that singularity/unity would hold the kind of significance 
that it seems to for us. We care about what is unique vs what is redundant. 
Why?
This assumible hypothesis means, by the multiverse assumption  that this 
has already happened somewhere somehow. And very well we may be, here and 
now, the product of it.


 Sure. I am fairly convinced that we already live inside such a simulation. 
 That just means that the structure of the multi-verse is a fractal. Not so 
 surprising, but fun to think about.


I don't think that simulation of any kind is possible without a foundation 
of consciousness to be simulated in the first place. If that's true, and 
the universe is made of 100% genuine awareness, then the probability of a 
'simulation' becomes trivial. Simulation does not exist, it is only an idea 
that genuine awareness has about the difference between direct and indirect 
awareness. The idea can be true locally, but not ultimately. In the 
absolute sense, nothing can be simulated.

Craig

 


 Telmo.
  



  

 2014-05-08 13:36 GMT+02:00 spudboy100 via Everything List 
 everyth...@googlegroups.com javascript::

  What if God is a Boltzmann Brain? He is likely not, but what they heck, 
 it's a shot at looking at the issue from another angle. Another thought, is 
 thing of the Big Mind (shrug) as doing the multiverse using the Schrodinger 
 universal wave function, and allow me to use hugh evertt the 3rd's 
 interpretation, ok? This is a ultra-gigantic amount of cosmii to initiate 
 biology inside of, a thankless task, that would poop anyone out 
 (anthropomorphism here) even God. Let's not cling frantically to 
 what Aquinas thought about God. Atheist Shmatheist. By the way your graphic 
 or whatever couldn't appear on this boys email. 
   
  
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Re: God is an atheist!

2014-05-08 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote:



 On Thursday, May 8, 2014 9:40:58 AM UTC-4, telmo_menezes wrote:




 On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Alberto G. Corona agoc...@gmail.comwrote:


 In this -single universe- context, the fine tuning of the physical
 constants are miracles by the way, so the hypothesis is true.


 I tend to agree. This is why I reject the single universe -- it's an
 extraordinary claim with no evidences.


 Why would the expectation of singularity be any more extra-ordinary than
 the expectation of multiplicity?


Because of the finely tuned physical constants.


 Our ordinary experience is that we share many common realities and that
 those realities are very consistent.


I agree.


 In a multiverse, I would expect much more interruption of our expectations.


Why?
Suppose Everett is right. Is interpretation recovers the classical world
from the many worlds. Why wouldn't that be enough?


 I would not expect that singularity/unity would hold the kind of
 significance that it seems to for us.


Why?
We are made of cells that are self-contained and interact only locally.
Wouldn't that already break our sense of unity?


 We care about what is unique vs what is redundant. Why?


Because organisms that are good at pattern recognition are more resilient
that organisms that are not?


 This assumible hypothesis means, by the multiverse assumption  that this
 has already happened somewhere somehow. And very well we may be, here and
 now, the product of it.


 Sure. I am fairly convinced that we already live inside such a
 simulation. That just means that the structure of the multi-verse is a
 fractal. Not so surprising, but fun to think about.


 I don't think that simulation of any kind is possible without a foundation
 of consciousness to be simulated in the first place. If that's true, and
 the universe is made of 100% genuine awareness, then the probability of a
 'simulation' becomes trivial. Simulation does not exist, it is only an idea
 that genuine awareness has about the difference between direct and indirect
 awareness. The idea can be true locally, but not ultimately. In the
 absolute sense, nothing can be simulated.


I think I agree. I see the simulation as just a set of things that can be
experienced. If comp is true, and some Lovecraftian creature in a
non-euclidian reality is running the universal dovetailer where we exist,
it cannot really be said that the Great Old Ones created us. They just
unleashed us, I guess. There's no point in starting a cult to worship them
-- although there could be some entertainment value in that.

Cheers
Telmo.



 Craig




 Telmo.






 2014-05-08 13:36 GMT+02:00 spudboy100 via Everything List 
 everyth...@googlegroups.com:

  What if God is a Boltzmann Brain? He is likely not, but what they
 heck, it's a shot at looking at the issue from another angle. Another
 thought, is thing of the Big Mind (shrug) as doing the multiverse using the
 Schrodinger universal wave function, and allow me to use hugh evertt the
 3rd's interpretation, ok? This is a ultra-gigantic amount of cosmii to
 initiate biology inside of, a thankless task, that would poop anyone out
 (anthropomorphism here) even God. Let's not cling frantically to
 what Aquinas thought about God. Atheist Shmatheist. By the way your graphic
 or whatever couldn't appear on this boys email.


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 To: everything-list everyth...@googlegroups.com
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Re: God is an atheist!

2014-05-08 Thread Craig Weinberg


On Thursday, May 8, 2014 11:45:32 AM UTC-4, telmo_menezes wrote:




 On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Craig Weinberg 
 whats...@gmail.comjavascript:
  wrote:



 On Thursday, May 8, 2014 9:40:58 AM UTC-4, telmo_menezes wrote:




 On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Alberto G. Corona agoc...@gmail.comwrote:
  

 In this -single universe- context, the fine tuning of the physical 
 constants are miracles by the way, so the hypothesis is true.


 I tend to agree. This is why I reject the single universe -- it's an 
 extraordinary claim with no evidences.


 Why would the expectation of singularity be any more extra-ordinary than 
 the expectation of multiplicity?


 Because of the finely tuned physical constants.


Finely tuned physical constants is consistent with a sense-primitive 
universe. Physics conforms to experience, so it is only finely tuned 
relative to an expectation of alternate, sense-independent physics.
 

  

 Our ordinary experience is that we share many common realities and that 
 those realities are very consistent.


 I agree.
  

 In a multiverse, I would expect much more interruption of our 
 expectations.


 Why?
 Suppose Everett is right. Is interpretation recovers the classical world 
 from the many worlds. Why wouldn't that be enough?


Because there would have to be many more worlds which are shades of 
semi-classical, non-classical, and non-sensical instead. Multiverse to me 
seems good for only one thing: To rescue our expectations of mechanism and 
pimordial unconsciousness. Once we admit that view is no less compulsive 
than anthropomorphism, then there is no reason to impose the machina ex 
deus of near-infinite multiplicity.
 

  

  I would not expect that singularity/unity would hold the kind of 
 significance that it seems to for us.


 Why?


Because in a MWI ontology, all uniqueness would be an irrelevant illusion.
 

 We are made of cells that are self-contained and interact only locally. 
 Wouldn't that already break our sense of unity?
  

 We care about what is unique vs what is redundant. Why?


 Because organisms that are good at pattern recognition are more resilient 
 that organisms that are not?


Why would pattern recognition be related to uniqueness though?
 

  

 This assumible hypothesis means, by the multiverse assumption  that this 
 has already happened somewhere somehow. And very well we may be, here and 
 now, the product of it.


 Sure. I am fairly convinced that we already live inside such a 
 simulation. That just means that the structure of the multi-verse is a 
 fractal. Not so surprising, but fun to think about.


 I don't think that simulation of any kind is possible without a 
 foundation of consciousness to be simulated in the first place. If that's 
 true, and the universe is made of 100% genuine awareness, then the 
 probability of a 'simulation' becomes trivial. Simulation does not exist, 
 it is only an idea that genuine awareness has about the difference between 
 direct and indirect awareness. The idea can be true locally, but not 
 ultimately. In the absolute sense, nothing can be simulated.


 I think I agree. I see the simulation as just a set of things that can be 
 experienced. If comp is true, and some Lovecraftian creature in a 
 non-euclidian reality is running the universal dovetailer where we exist, 
 it cannot really be said that the Great Old Ones created us. They just 
 unleashed us, I guess. There's no point in starting a cult to worship them 
 -- although there could be some entertainment value in that.


Even so, Uberthulhu has the same problem that we do. The explanatory gap is 
not explained, only miniaturized and hidden behind the alien-ness of 
disembodied dovetailing.

Thanks,
Craig
 


 Cheers
 Telmo.
  


 Craig

  


 Telmo.
  



  

 2014-05-08 13:36 GMT+02:00 spudboy100 via Everything List 
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  What if God is a Boltzmann Brain? He is likely not, but what they 
 heck, it's a shot at looking at the issue from another angle. Another 
 thought, is thing of the Big Mind (shrug) as doing the multiverse using 
 the 
 Schrodinger universal wave function, and allow me to use hugh evertt the 
 3rd's interpretation, ok? This is a ultra-gigantic amount of cosmii to 
 initiate biology inside of, a thankless task, that would poop anyone out 
 (anthropomorphism here) even God. Let's not cling frantically to 
 what Aquinas thought about God. Atheist Shmatheist. By the way your 
 graphic 
 or whatever couldn't appear on this boys email. 
   
  
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 ​
 As hopefully the above will demonstrate, if I managed to upload the 
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Re: God is an atheist!

2014-05-08 Thread LizR
Why does this sort of thing never work for me? It's almost like a higher
power is determined to stop me. OK, let's try again...



(​Or does God lie awake at nights wondering where HE came from?)

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Re: God is an atheist!

2014-05-08 Thread meekerdb

On 5/8/2014 2:51 PM, LizR wrote:
Why does this sort of thing never work for me? It's almost like a higher power is 
determined to stop me. OK, let's try again...




(​Or does God lie awake at nights wondering where HE came from?)



Q: What's a dyslexic agnostic insomniac?
A: Someone who lies awake at night wondering if there is a dog...

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Re: God is an atheist!

2014-05-08 Thread LizR
...or if that's God, barking in the quad.

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