Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-10 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm. Please read this blogpost and let me know if this meets your 'demonstrating factual accuracy in this sense here, of

Re: I can tolerate anything except the outgroup

2014-10-10 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:44

Re: I can tolerate anything except the outgroup

2014-10-10 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Platonist

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-10 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: nobody knows anything about God, Including if He exists. nor can we observe God. Rather like Santa Claus. However, the observable universe/multiverse/creation seems to be purpose-built If the multiverse exists

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Oct 2014, at 21:03, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 , Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If nature can do it then there is no reason humans can't harness nature to do it for us, but there is ZERO evidence that nature can solve NP complete problems (much less non

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-10 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm. Please read this blogpost and let me

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Oct 2014, at 23:48, meekerdb wrote: On 10/9/2014 2:29 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-10-09 23:23 GMT+02:00 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com: 2014-10-09 22:02 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Oct 2014, at 00:21, John Mikes wrote: Samiya, I did not participate in the sequence about your wisdom on the list, because you did not refer to my question: WHAT, WHEN, and HOW did it occur that you first thought of the existence of God? (I suggested tha it was your Mummy and at

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-10 Thread Samiya Illias
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 10 Oct 2014, at 00:21, John Mikes wrote: Samiya, I did not participate in the sequence about your wisdom on the list, because you did not refer to my question: WHAT, WHEN, and HOW did it occur that you first thought

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Oct 2014, at 21:06, Samiya Illias wrote: On 09-Oct-2014, at 11:42 pm, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm. Please read this blogpost and let me know if this meets your

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Oct 2014, at 05:40, Samiya Illias wrote: On 10-Oct-2014, at 3:21 am, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Samiya, I did not participate in the sequence about your wisdom on the list, because you did not refer to my question: WHAT, WHEN, and HOW did it occur that you first thought

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Oct 2014, at 12:52, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm. Please read this blogpost and let me know if this meets your

Re: generalizations_of_islam

2014-10-10 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:42 PM, mickey.beerg...@gmail.com wrote: God has spoken to me...3 times. God has only spoken to me once, He said Vm, unless it was just my neighbor's lawn mower. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: generalizations_of_islam

2014-10-10 Thread John Clark
Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: physics does not even address the problem of qualia And neither does religion. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-10 Thread meekerdb
On 10/10/2014 9:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: But I can argue that some theory cannot be outranked by an experiment. Two possible examples: the theory that I (you) are conscious here and now (may be hallucinated, just conscious). The other example: elementary arithmetic. It has not changed since

Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-10 Thread meekerdb
On 10/10/2014 10:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Oct 2014, at 23:48, meekerdb wrote: On 10/9/2014 2:29 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-10-09 23:23 GMT+02:00 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com mailto:allco...@gmail.com: 2014-10-09 22:02 GMT+02:00 John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com

Re: generalizations_of_islam

2014-10-10 Thread mickey . beergate
On Friday, October 10, 2014 8:16:10 PM UTC+1, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:42 PM, mickey@gmail.com javascript: wrote: God has spoken to me...3 times. God has only spoken to me once, He said Vm, unless it was just my neighbor's lawn mower. John K Clark