On 26/10/2015 4:45 pm, Jason Resch wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 10/25/2015 10:32 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
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.
I tend to go with the evidence. If there is no evidence that something
exists, I tend to be sceptical about its existence -- in inverse
proportion to the likelihood of direct evidence if it did exist. In
which case, absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
Bruce
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