A few comments: IMO it is necessary to make a distinction between existence, reality, and physical reality.
My latest model: Existence: A property that should be reserved for the basis of the specific "everything" model such as "numbers". Reality: A property of any entity derived from the existence of the basis. Physical reality: A property of such an entity that allows it to alter the properties of another entity or have its properties so altered. The only such alteration that seems possible is the one that gives an entity the property of physical reality or not - thus entities interact through altering which entities have physical reality. A "flow" or a dynamic in physical reality has thus been introduced. Notice that the notion of "property" runs through all of these. Thus in my view "property" should be the basis in the form of a list of all properties. Divisions of the list are entities and come in pairs and all have a degree of reality since they are derived from the list. Entities equivalent to numbers would be a division and also this division would be contained within other divisions. Another division would be the generator of the Nothing and the All. Can the Nothing have physical reality? There seems to be a problem with "it can". If it does then it does not since no other entity then could. If it does not then there is no issue and it would remain in this condition. Can zero entities have physical reality? No - this would be the same as no physical reality - essentially the Nothing having physical reality. Can just one entity have physical reality? No - this violates the definition of physical reality. Can those entities having physical reality be static? No - this is equivalent to the absence of physical reality. Can just two entities have physical reality? No - this would permit the possibility of just one entity having physical reality and this is not allowed. From this basis - a list of properties - I therefore conclude that many entities except the Nothing can have physical reality and that there must be a flow of physical reality. Further there would be more entities than those based just on numbers. Hal Ruhl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---