On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jesse, > > This is just outrageously wrong. Block time implies the most magical > mystical miraculous creation event of all times, of the entire universe > from beginning to end, a creation event that makes the Biblical creation > event look completely reasonable by comparison. > > That is the exact OPPOSITE of Occam's razor because it is the most complex > creation event possible to imagine.... > It doesn't imply spacetime was the result of a "creation" event, any more than the Mandelbrot set was a result of a "creation" event (the Mandelbrot set also appears quite complex, although its information content is very small, as might be true of the multiverse). Of course, this may not be a convincing analogy to you since from earlier posts I gather you think that mathematical truths like 2+2=4 emerge in time and weren't true before they were "computed" (at what point in time did the mathematical rules governing computation arise?), but it works for mathematical platonists like me. Jesse -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
