Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

2006-03-09 Thread Georges Quenot
Hal Ruhl a écrit : Hi Georges: Hi Hal, I was responding to Bruno's comments. However, I would have the same response to your position. Why that selection? I wrote could. This means that it *could* be that all else be wihtin (and identical to) the world of numbers. Indeed, it could

Re: Numbers

2006-03-09 Thread John M
Georges, your post is on the level, I am not G I am still in common sense with my feeble thinking-tool. Which leaves me with a question - please see inserted. (I erase the rest of the lengthu discussion) John M --- Georges Quenot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John M a écrit : Bruno wrote:

Re: Numbers

2006-03-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 08-mars-06, à 18:14, John M a écrit : Bruno wrote: What can be said about numbers is that it is impossible to explain what numbers are to someone who does not already knows what they are... I will talk about what numbers do, not 'are' ..If a TOE does not implicitly or explicitly

Re: Numbers

2006-03-09 Thread John M
--- Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 08-mars-06, à 18:14, John M a écrit : Bruno wrote: What can be said about numbers is that it is impossible to explain what numbers are to someone who does not already knows what they are... I will talk about what numbers do,

Re: Numbers

2006-03-09 Thread Georges Quénot
John M wrote: Georges, your post is on the level, I am not G I am still in common sense with my feeble thinking-tool. Sorry, I am not a native english speaker, I don't understand what on the level can mean (and especially with quotes). In don't understand either what you mean by G. I

Re: Vimalakirti Machines

2006-03-09 Thread daddycaylor
Bruno wrote: So the divine intellect of the Vimalakirti Machine will contains all proposition of the form: ~Bwhatever: more example: ~B(an asteroid will not hurt earth in 2102) ~B(an asteroid will hurt earth in 2102) ~B(1+1 = 4) ~B(1+1 ? 4) ~B(PI is rational) ~B(PI is not rational)

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

2006-03-09 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Georges: The key division of my list of possible properties of objects is: [empty [read the Nothing]:all other properties [read my All[perhaps the Everything]]]. The Nothing is incomplete [there is a meaningful question it must answer but of course can not] and the All is complete [the