My ratiocination: "There are two kinds of people. Those who believe there are an irrational number of types of things, and those who don't."
> Channeling Hywel, I hope accurately: There is no irrational number of > things of any type in the Universe > > ----------------------------------- > Frank Wimberly > > My memoir: > https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly > > My scientific publications: > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 > > Phone (505) 670-9918 > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 7:52 AM glen∈ℂ <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Ha! You raise two excellent points: > > 1) Is "a beer" a portion of a given volume or a massive noun? > https://youtu.be/cf0y2pVw6Tk Or perhaps it refers to different > batches, distinguished by the process (ingredients, mash, boil, > distribution)? But what if you're a macro brewery and your quality > control is so tight that there's almost 0 difference between batches? > > 2) Would a monist object to the idea that we could distinguish a > 1.001 pluralist from a 1001 pluralist? After all the only > difference between having 1001 types of thing and 1.001 types of > thing is scaling. So, the real difference would be spectral > pluralist vs. continuum pluralist. So, we'd need to find a > pluralist who thought there were an irrational number of thing types. > > This episode was rather nice: "Does Life Need a Multiverse to > Exist?" <https://youtu.be/YmOVoIpaPrc?t=404> Up to that point, > he's relying on an intuitive orthogonality between the forces and > constants ... a typical misunderstanding of the "fine-tuning" > argument. He goes on (from the time I included in the URL) to hint > at the unified, *relational* sense of the argument. And he > mentions it specifically later, I think in talking about how > string theory tries to generate the different properties from the > One True Substance. 8^) > > On 11/15/19 12:31 PM, Prof David West wrote: > > I just bought a book for a Dutch friend - 1001 Beers. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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