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

2007-03-09 Thread John Mikes
i ENVY YOU, guys, to know so much about BHs to speak of a singularity. I would not go further than according to what is said about them, they may wash off whatever got into and turn into - sort of - a singularity. Galaxies, whatever, fall into those hypothetical BHs and who knows how much Dark

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

2007-03-09 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Hi John, Singularity is just a name that means that the solutions of the equations describing the BH gives infinity... It's what is a singularity. Does the infinity is real (we must still be in accordance about what it means) is another question, but accepting GR as a true approximation of

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-03-09 Thread Tom Caylor
On Mar 8, 4:14 pm, Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: God and the plenitude (was:The Meaning of Life)

2007-03-09 Thread Tom Caylor
On Mar 7, 1:52 am, Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/7/07, Tom Caylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why wouldn't the *whole* of such a Plenitude be truly superfluous to any reality? According to Bruno's recursion theory argument, most of the stuff in the Plenitude is useless

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-03-09 Thread Brent Meeker
Tom Caylor wrote: On Mar 8, 4:14 pm, Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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