Excellent article Stephen. Sean Carrol has made a career, even more than Krauss, of skewering BB's or anything they consider unconventional. Although Krauss does wink and nod at FTL travel. Aaronson is beyond clever, but I don't see his thesis, as well thought out as it was, as being the best answer (Vaidman Bombs). Consider please Brun's experimentation with Closed Timelike Curves. Applying this to the thermodynamics of Boltzmann, quantum mechanics, with CTC's, we get something that looks like J. Richard Gott, and Li Xin Li's (Princeton) Einstein's Universe. BB's included. (Gotts article on ARXIV "I'd Rather See One Than Be One.").
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Paul King <stephe...@provensecure.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wed, Oct 15, 2014 11:30 am Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore? Hi Spudboy, Not Boltzmann brains. Vaidman brains! On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:23 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: Aha! Now what of Boltzmann Brains and how this topic is undervalued by the intellects here. -----Original Message----- From: John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tue, Oct 14, 2014 7:30 pm Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore? On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > I suggest to define God by "either the physical universe OR what is at the > origin of the physical universe, Then if modern cosmologists are even close to being correct God is not omniscient, God isn't even very smart, in fact God is as dumb as a sack full of doorknobs. And that is a great example of someone more than willing to abandon the idea of God but not the English word G-O-D. > or what is at the origin of the conscious belief in the physical universe Then my brain is God but your brain is not because I believe in a physical universe but you have said on this list that you don't. > With that definition of God, God's existence is quite plausible If you redefine dragons as the animals the run in the Kentucky Derby Race every year then the existence of dragons is quite plausible. John K Clark -- 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/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/everything-list/uxC9vWWQ0Ss/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/d/optout. -- Kindest Regards, Stephen Paul King Senior Researcher Mobile: (864) 567-3099 stephe...@provensecure.com http://www.provensecure.us/ “This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is non-public, proprietary, privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law or may be constituted as attorney work product. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, notify sender immediately and delete this message immediately.” -- 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.
