Re: Evidence for the simulation argument - and Thanks and a dumb question.

2007-03-08 Thread Mark Peaty
SP:' You wouldn't necessarily be squashed if you were inside the event horizon of a black hole provided that it was massive enough. Being inside the event horizon is not the same as being inside the singularity.' MP: Two thoughts come to my suspicious mind. 1/ [Not far from the

Re: JOINING post

2007-03-08 Thread John Mikes
2 objections: A. If I state that i cannot do something that does not (logically) imply that I CAN do another thing. B. Your last line is your opinion substantiated by nothing, I appreciate anybodies opinion as such, it may have a personal (not factual) meaning - weight. We diverted from my

Re: Evidence for the simulation argument

2007-03-08 Thread John M
Stathis: your starting the argument: IF the M-W-I(dea) is valid, it it seems to imply...which is a bit shaky (what if not?) - the law-like is a breakable compromise between confro nting arguments. Do I read some denigration of the White Rabbit? (coming from a wide interpretation of all

Re: JOINING post

2007-03-08 Thread John M
I feel a misunderstanding here: origination point IMO is part of the item to be originated, the pertinent 'point' (within and for) the evolving total to grow out from. As I used 'origination refers to the entailment producing such point - if we use a 'point' to start with. Such 'point' is the

Re: Evidence for the simulation argument - and Thanks and a dumb question.

2007-03-08 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 3/9/07, Mark Peaty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MP: Two thoughts come to my suspicious mind. 1/ [Not far from the post-Freudian speculation :-] ... Attendance within the event horizon of a common or garden galactic variety black hole would seem to incorporate a one-way ticket *to* the

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-03-08 Thread Tom Caylor
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 3/7/07, Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/7/07, Brent Meeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Caylor wrote: I agree with the Russell quote as it stands. Unendingness is not what gives meaning. The source of meaning is not living

Re: Evidence for the simulation argument

2007-03-08 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 3/9/07, John M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stathis: your starting the argument: IF the M-W-I(dea) is valid, it it seems to imply...which is a bit shaky (what if not?) - the law-like is a breakable compromise between confro nting arguments. Do I read some denigration of the White Rabbit?

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-03-08 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 3/9/07, Tom Caylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: You could replace love with chocolate and God with the chocolate fairy. You can claim that while the reason people like chocolate can be explained in terms of chemistry, physiology, evolutionary biology etc.,