On 8 March 2014 10:29, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Friday, March 7, 2014 3:52:33 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > >> On 8 March 2014 01:21, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> All, >>> >>> An empty space within which events occur does not exist. There is no >>> universal fixed pre-existing empty space common to all events and observers. >>> >>> Why? Because we cannot establish its existence by any observation >>> whatsoever. We NEVER observe such an empty space. All we actually observe >>> is interactions between particulate matter and energy. In fact, all >>> observations ARE interactions of particulate matter or energy, they are >>> never observations of empty space itself. >>> >> >> Observations are not in fact observations of interactions between matter >> and energy, either. They are in fact interactions inside our brains, >> hypothetically the reception of nerve signals by our brain cells. >> > > There are interactions inside our brains, but that doesn't mean that those > interactions are literally our observations. It's not a fact, it's an > assumption, and one which clearly has problems once you scratch beneath the > surface. >
Yes, but the point is that there's a hierarchy of assumptions here. I was just pointing to the next level down. Going deeper doesn't invalidate Edgar's point any more than the fact of the first level does. -- 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/d/optout.
