On 06 Jan 2015, at 17:57, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:00 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:
> You seem to be obsessed with God,
I'm obsessed!? Bruno is the one running around trying to stick the
"G-O-D" label on anything that moves not me.
I think Liz menat that you are obsessed with the christian or
abramanic God, but I use the term in its original sense given by
Plato, where God is the ultimate reality. This is useful to realize
that the question "is god a person or a thing" is an open problem.
But I have use the label "god" only in this list, and always in reply.
I do use the label "theology" for "theory of everything", though,
because the theology of the universal machine fits the theology of
Plotinus and Proclus, which were developed before the field was made
the exclusive domain of the institutionalized non scientfic religion.
Bruno
> The problem with EI is that it needs an explanation for how the
entire temporal structure arises,
The FEATURE of the inflation field is that it is much simpler than
the Universe or Yahweh. And I'm not exactly sure what you're
demanding, a explanation of how something, or rather how a nothing
without even the *potential * to produce something produced something?
> even if it has no beginning, the theory needs to explain why this
reality and no other?
This is needed only if you assume every event has a cause, and
modern physics gives me little confidence that this is in fact
true. I think it more likely that the existence of the inflation
field is a brute fact.
> This is a fascinating question, and one in the scientific
tradition of digging deeper into what's really going on.
It might be fruitful to speculate if there was something even
simpler and it produced the inflation field, but then of course
people would wonder what produced that. This line of inquiry can
only end in 2 ways:
1) We keep finding things that are simpler and simpler but the
complexity level never reaches zero and it looks like it never will,
so we give up.
2) Eventually we find something that is just a brute fact and that
is that.
John K Clark
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