Yes, Infinite Minds, Defending Immortality, The End of the World. Leslie, was interviewed by Jim Holt in Holt's "Why the World Exists?" Leslie's Ethical Requireness is interesting. I have mentally tried to mingle Leslie's works with Boltzmann's Boltzmann Brains, by asking silly, questions, as, is God a Boltzmann Brain? Or, If God is a BB, are we mere flickerings of thoughts within that Boltzmann Brain? Are there others as there should be? in an envisaged, infinite single universe? These are stimulating ideas to toy with, but I am sure Karl Popper would be asking for falsifiability. Still, it might be enjoyable for us primates to meet and communicate with the Master Brain, of this section of reality. Or at least I think this.
Mitch -----Original Message----- From: freqflyer07281972 <thismindisbud...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thu, Jul 4, 2013 8:02 pm Subject: John Leslie's 'Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology' Hey List! (and in particular Bruno) I have started re-reading the book I mention in the subject line -- after languishing in my bookshelf for a number of years, I pulled it out and began noticing the uncanny parallels it had with Bruno's UDA, although it reaches the same conclusions by some rather different means, notably; it postulates God as the thinker of all thoughts, envisioning god in a Spinozistic/Platonic light, and (something that from what I have read seems absent from the UDA) postulates the 'ethical requiredness' of God as being of enough force to bring him into being, thus short-circuiting the old " If God exists, what caused him to exist?" type of argument. I guess my general question is if any of you are familiar with Leslie's work and if so, to what degree, and also if so, to what degree do you find it plausible? Myself, I seem to be going through a kind of metaphysical conversion of sorts, one where, despite the multiplicity of minds/universes, there nevertheless seems to be an unspeakable and seemingly permanent unity to all things. I'm almost leaning towards Christianity, for the simple reason that it seems peculiar and particular enough to just be right and suitable to reality. (Reading CS Lewis' 'Mere Christianity' has swayed me in this way -- check it out, it's online). Forgive the brevity of my remarks... I'd unpack more if there was any interest expressed in what I was saying... perhaps I'm not saying anything that hasn't already been said. Cheers, Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
