On Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 2:37:52 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 3 Sep 2019, at 10:55, Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ... Michael Forrest's paper [ > https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294721340_God_is_a_Vacuum_Fluctuation > > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fpublication%2F294721340_God_is_a_Vacuum_Fluctuation&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHhm0WpNzkTvUK88_53m8kvdDlVuw> > ] > should have related something more naturally plausible: > > *cosmopsychism* > - > https://aeon.co/essays/cosmopsychism-explains-why-the-universe-is-fine-tuned-for-life > > At least we know *consciousness* exists in at least one place > (inside our skulls, though there are deniers) > - https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/13/the-consciousness-deniers/ > > but no evidence of *God* has ever been observed. > > > It does not make sense to say that my consciousness is located in my > skull, no more than to say that the number 2 is in my fridge, even if > exactly two bottles of fresh water is there. > > Then, how do you define God? I agree that there is no evidence for Santa > Klaus, but I would say that with the original conception of God given by > Plato (which is simply the fundamental truth, with the insight that it is > above us), there are some evidence, ...making it for me the second thing > close to the indubitable. > > Now, I do think that there are no evidences for a primary physical > universe. And there are evidence that it does not exist: mainly that it can > be proven that that it is incompatible with Mechanism, for which we do have > evidences, like the evidence for evolution, molecular biology, or the > computability of all known Lagrangian or Hamiltonian (quantum or not). > > Bruno >
There is arguably arithmetical/mathematical language hidden in natural things, but it is certainly in brains (as a human invention). @philipthrift -- 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/31f585f0-4a3c-4ced-a05c-014286827c6e%40googlegroups.com.
