On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:47 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 7/24/2018 7:02 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> >> On 7/24/2018 7:12 AM, Jason Resch wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 10:44 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 7/23/2018 8:40 PM, Jason Resch wrote: >>> > Other mathematics might work, but this seems to be the absolute >>> > simplest and with the least assumptions. It comes from pure >>> > mathematical truth concerning integers. You don't need set theory, or >>> > reals, or machines with infinite tapes. You just need a single >>> > equation, which needs math no more advanced than whats taught in >>> > elementary school. I can't imagine a TOE that could assume less. >>> >>> It might be interesting except that it executes all possible >>> algorithms. Another instance of proving too much. >>> >>> Now if you would find the diophantine equations that compute this world >>> and only this world that would be something. >>> >> >> Well for you to have a valid doubt regarding the everything predicted to >> exist by all computations, you would need to show why you expect each >> individual being within that everything should also be able to see >> everything. >> >> >> So if I tell you everything described in every novel ever written really >> happened, but on a different planets (many also called "Earth") you >> couldn't doubt that unless you could show that you should have been able to >> see all those novels play out. >> > > If a theory predicts that everything exists, and also explains why you > shouldn't expect to see everything even though everything exists, then you > can't use your inability to see everything that exists as a criticism of > the theory. > > > However, I can use the incoherence of "everything exists" to reject it. > You could, but Robinson arithmetic is fairly coherent, in my opinion. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
