On 10/25/2015 10:32 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Brent Meeker <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On 10/25/2015 9:48 PM, Jason Resch wrote:On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Bruce Kellett <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The only sort of existence for which we have concrete evidence is physical existence. We can understand imaginary things, but we have no direct evidence for their existence -- certainly not for their physical existence. Do you acknowledge that we have no evidence that such things do not exist? And therefore, we should at least remain agnostic on the idea rather than reject the idea out of hand?Hmm? Shall I be agnostic about the existence of a teapot orbiting Jupiter? I have no evidence it doesn't exist. I wonder if Jason Resch is really a very cleverly programmed chatbot? Maybe I'll be agnostic about it.In both those cases you do have evidence: your knowledge about how matter organizes itself, and the current state of AI. To say other realities/structures besides our universe exist is something you have absolutely zero evidence for.
So having zero evidence for them I proportion my belief to the evidence (c.f. Hume)
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