> DM: You mean actual that is a subset of the possible I think. > > [Krimel] > Yes but the set of what is possible is constantly being altered but what > is actual. Actualization annihilates possibility in its wake.
DM: Yes for our universe this is true, but beyond our universe all things may remain possible. Maybe we need an 'actualisable' concept? Not everything possible is actualisable at any given time/place. [Krimel] This is the problem I thought Ham was letting the 'impossible' through the backdoor with 'potential'. If you mean 'possible' in the sense of 'anything is possible' then we must part company. I will revert to my term of preference 'probable'. You have been saying the actual is a subset of the possible. But the actual is not a subset of the impossible. > [Krimel] > As I tried desperately to show a long while back in the NOW all > probability reaches 100%. In the NOW possibility equals actuality. DM: But the now is always being disturbed by the need to embrace one set of finite possibilities and forsaking an infinite set of possibilities, at least that is how I experience life in the now. [Krimel] At anytime outside of NOW there is no actuality only probability. The closer to NOW we are the less variation there is in the probability of what can actualize. The farther we drift from NOW the greater the variation, until possibility in your sense starts to make some sense. So for example it might be possible for monkeys to fly out of Ham's butt if at some time in the past conditions had been more suitable for butt monkeys to evolve. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
