On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 10/25/2015 10:32 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Brent Meeker <[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]>[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) > > That was a typo, I meant to say "To say other realities/structures besides our universe *don't* exist is something you have absolutely zero evidence for." I take it you have now corrected your proportion of belief for the above statement to reflect the amount of evidence you have. Jason -- 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.
