Re: An invisible amoral mindless metaphorical form of arithmetic, aka "God"

2017-02-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Feb 2017, at 19:15, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 3:42 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​>> ​​You were correct when ​​w​hen ​you said "he is duplicated", therefore while in H any question of the form "what will he...?" is meaningless because "he" is

Re: From Atheism to Islam

2017-02-06 Thread PGC
On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 11:39:35 AM UTC+1, telmo_menezes wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Brent Meeker > wrote: > > > > > > And so do you think of yourself as agnostic about the value of > fascism?...or > > communism? > > Yes, I reject simplistic

Re: From Atheism to Islam

2017-02-06 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 2/5/2017 3:14 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: >>> >>> Inconsistent? Would you have people who oppose fascism not have a >>> definition of fascism - so that they were just opposing some undefined, >>> amorphous ideology?

Boltzmann Brains rule out any theory?

2017-02-06 Thread Ronald Held
Why Boltzmann Brains Are Bad Authors: Sean M. Carroll Comments: 27 pages. Invited submission to a volume on Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science, eds. Shamik Dasgupta and Brad Weslake Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO);

Re: Brainwashing by atheists

2017-02-06 Thread PGC
On Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 5:39:19 PM UTC+1, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 03 Feb 2017, at 15:25, PGC wrote: > > Now it's interdisciplinary that nobody recognizes arithmetical reality to > not be axiomatizable, the next day it's a mathematicalism, on another day > it's a point in theology,

Re: From Atheism to Islam

2017-02-06 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/6/2017 2:39 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: On 2/5/2017 3:14 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Inconsistent? Would you have people who oppose fascism not have a definition of fascism - so that they were just opposing some

Re: An invisible amoral mindless metaphorical form of arithmetic, aka "God"

2017-02-06 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/6/2017 4:25 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: because, by computationalism, we know that each copies will feel seeing only one city. How does computationalism alone guarantee that? It seems that it relies on a lot of physical assumptions about the speed of light and the physical

Re: Boltzmann Brains rule out any theory?

2017-02-06 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Mon., 6 Feb. 2017 at 11:06 pm, Ronald Held wrote: > Why Boltzmann Brains Are Bad > Authors: Sean M. Carroll > > Comments: 27 pages. Invited submission to a volume on Current > Controversies in Philosophy of Science, eds. Shamik Dasgupta and Brad > Weslake > Subjects:

Re: Boltzmann Brains rule out any theory?

2017-02-06 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/6/2017 9:12 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Mon., 6 Feb. 2017 at 11:06 pm, Ronald Held > wrote: Why Boltzmann Brains Are Bad Authors: Sean M. Carroll Comments: 27 pages. Invited submission to a volume on Current

Re: From Atheism to Islam

2017-02-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 Feb 2017, at 21:21, Brent Meeker wrote: On 2/5/2017 3:14 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Inconsistent? Would you have people who oppose fascism not have a definition of fascism - so that they were just opposing some undefined, amorphous ideology? It is interesting that you bring this

Re: From Atheism to Islam

2017-02-06 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/6/2017 2:09 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: As such it has nothing to do with facts in the world. Which world? This world. The one I can interact with. Sorry, with computationalism, there is only a web of dreams, and it is an open problem if those "cohere" enough to define a notion of