On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 10:06:38AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 9:45 AM Russell Standish <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 05:18:47PM -0400, John Clark wrote: > > > > >> OK so 0=1, that's fine. > > > > > No, that is not fine. If 0=1, pigs have wings. > > > > > > Yes but that's OK too, if nothing physical exists then pigs and wings > can't > > cause problems because they don't exist. And there are no minds that > might be > > upset by paradoxes. > > > > That's kind of the point, though. Minds are nonphysical things, and > there is no apriori reason why physical things need to exist for minds > to exist. > > > You have evidence for disembodied minds?
That's not an apriori reason. Assuming you're in principle OK with the concept of a brain in a vat (which is a disembodied mind), then the you too do not have an apriori reason for the existence of physical things. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/20190825013144.GD2402%40zen.
