Hi David,
I attach a comment by Victor Stenger on Lawrence Krauss's "A Universe from Nothing". You might also want to follow the link to David Albert's critical review. Is it meaningful to speak of a "nothing" beyond the void of RQFT? Or beyond the truths of arithmetic? http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=4754&utm_source=philosophynws&utm_medium=facebook
Hmm... They are not aware of the mind body problem, and they take for granted a speculation on one universal number (and then Dawkins is glad because it is not theology.
You may be interested in today's BBC Radio 4 "In Our Time" with Melvyn Bragg et al, which was about Neo-Platonism and Plotinus. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/iot_20120419-1145a.mp3
That seems much more interesting :) Best, Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
