On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:37 AM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 3/5/2018 9:14 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > "Could" implies a question about possibilities. It's certainly logically > possible that there not be such a disease as leukemia. Is it nomologically > possible?...not as far as we know. > > Well I'm not sure it's logically possible, for the reasons that Bruno > already addressed. > > > Bruno is assuming that everything not contrary to his theory exists > axiomatically...which is assuming the answer.
That is a rather uncharitable way of putting it. Bruno has discussed his Universal Dovetailer Argument extensively. If you assume comp and accept the argument, then we are inside of the dovetailer. The dovetailer is an everything-generator. Russell proposes something similar in his book. Isn't the exploration of this type of idea the original reason for this mailing list? That doesn't mean that the idea is right, of course, but it does mean that one should expect to not keep going around in circles without ever reaching a more sophisticated level of engagement with such theories. > But why would you suppose that a world in which "Leukemia doesn't exist." > would allow you derive a logical contradiction? I think such a world would require one to accept something like creationism as logically consistent. The process of biological complexification happens by natural selection. Natural selection, by definition, implies failure modes. It also leads to endless competitive and exploitative dynamics such as predators, pathogens, parasites, etc. Avoiding all of these tragedies from the perspective of human beings would require a designer holding human interests at heart above everything else. Both the pre-existence of such a designer and its motivation to helps us above everything else seem nonsensical to me. Telmo. > Brent > > -- > 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 https://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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
