But extracting something from the Plenitude is trivial, or so it seems to most people. If I have an infinite bin of dollar coins, and I owe you $10, I don't see any difficulty in paying you the $10. Do you?
Cheers On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:57:38PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the previous post I should have said, "Russell, you've even said in your > Why Occam's Razor paper that the Plenitude is ontologically _equivalent_ to > Nothing." > > Tom > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Full-name: Daddycaylor > Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:50:23 EST > Subject: Re: Let There Be Something > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: [email protected] > X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5300 > > To me it's very simple, and I've already laid it out in just a few words > below, and in more words in different ways in my previous posts on this > thread. > Russell, you've even said in your Why Occam's Razor paper that the Plenitude > is ontologically to Nothing. To it follows that the following two mappings > are the same: > > Plenitude --> Something > Nothing --> Something > > It's basically a singularity either way. That's why I invoked the word > "faith" below. > > Tom > > > Russell Standish wrote: > > I don't agree that your original query was left unanswered - it was > > answered by several people, in possibly contradictory ways (that > > remains to be seen - I tend to see the commonality). Perhaps you > > mean the answers were unsatisfactory for you, in which case I'd > > be interested in hearing from you why they are unsatisfactory. > > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:41:10AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Perhaps there needs to be a new thread for the new topic (Game of Life, > > etc.). > > > > It seems my original inquiry has been left unanswered, but this is my > > point. My challenge was that multiverse theory is just pulling things > > out of thin air just as much as any other metaphysical theory. At each > > point in the history of science, science needs an external foundation > > to stand on, and by definition this is extra-science. Cluttering up the > > picture with "Everything" doesn't solve the problem at all. The > > multiverse is a tautology. Attributing meaning to it is a statement of > > faith. > > > > Tom > > -- > *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which > is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a > virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this > email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you > may safely ignore this attachment. > -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile) Mathematics 0425 253119 (") UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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