Re: Plato's cave analogy

2012-11-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
Dear Stephen, On 14 Nov 2012, at 20:40, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/14/2012 4:29 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Dear Bruno, My claim is that the phrase that you used above ...we agree that for all is just another way of thinking of my definition of reality as That which is

I'm back, thanks to Windows 7

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi everybody, I need to catch up with some of you. I've been offline for a few days because of computer problems and even thought I had lost all of my email. But the recover feature of Windows 7 works like a charm even though you thought you had lost the whole OS and wondered if you still had

Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/15/2012 6:20 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno and Russell, The evidence of a Big Bang is enormous. See, for example: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/astronomy/bigbang.html Hi Roger, I invite you to read James P. Hogan's /Kicking the Sacred Cow/

Re: Re: the God hypothesis

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen Hawking, So quantum gravity was designed and created by mindless, random, brute forces ? Or came out of nothing at all, not even intelligence, not even an idea or form ? Not even the tooth fairy ? This nonsense you apparently believe shows that materialistic thinking can cause brain

Re: Re: I am a realist rather than a nominalist because universal gravityexists.

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg Yes, Berkeley's solopsism is impossible to disprove, so your theory that perception causes existence holds. But, forgive me, how do you know that there are other people to report your findings to ? We could all be chimeras. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 11/15/2012

Re: Re: My embarassing misunderstanding of the intelligence of computers

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg Everything has at least some intelligence or consciousness, according to Leibniz's metaphysics, even rocks. But these bare naked monads are essentially in deep, drugged sleep and darkness, or at best drunk. Leibniz called such a state the unconscious way before Freud and

Re: Re: the God hypothesis

2012-11-15 Thread Richard Ruquist
Hi Roger Clough, As you have been told, quantum gravity is contained within each string theory monad. No one knows where that came from, certainly not any god that humans are connected to. Richard On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Stephen Hawking, So

Re: Re: Re: Leibniz's pre-composed harmonic orchestral performance

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Platonist Guitar Cowboy 12 tone music can be refreshing for a while but I soon get bored. On the other hand, Stravinksy and many others can do exciting things with dissonance. The Firebird Suite and the Rites of Spring enhance this marvellously with dance. [Roger Clough],

Re: Re: Re: Leibniz's pre-composed harmonic orchestral performance

2012-11-15 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Hi Roger, I'm not trying to convince you to listen to 12-tone music, as it is even misleading to talk about is as a unified whole = every composer that uses these tools and their funky harmonic logic approaches them differently. And composers have been doing this since in some form or the other

Re: Against Mechanism

2012-11-15 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If he's a devout Muslim he believes he will go to heaven with 77 virgins when he pushes that button, but as I said I really don't care what he believes will happen, I care about what will happen. That was my point. What happen

Re: Re: the God hypothesis

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist That's just my point. You can't have quantum gravity unless it emerged from mind ior universal intelligence. Where there's smoke, there's fire. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 11/15/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving

Re: Re: the God hypothesis

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist and Bruno, There is (infinite) regress in physical nature, but not in mind, because mind is non-existent (not created). [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 11/15/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content

Re: Re: Re: the God hypothesis

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist Call it what you want, but anything existent exists according to some pre-existing physical rules etc. Some Cosmic intelligence. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 11/15/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following

Re: Re: Weyl on mathematics vs. reality

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Evgenii Rudnyi Perhaps strings might better model materials and their behavior than current chemistry and materials science can. And suggest the possibioity of creating new materials (composistes) as well as explaining little understood materials phenomena. [Roger Clough],

In the beginning were the numbers

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King and Bruno, Perhaps these problems below fade away if you think of numbers in this way: In the beginning were the numbers and the numbers were with Mind and the numbers were Mind. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 11/15/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the

The fundamental primitive

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Truth or mind or numbers or life or intelligence is the ultimate primitive. They are what the spacetime universe and man emerged from ultimately. This is called downward causation. In the beginning were the numbers and the numbers were with Mind and the numbers were Mind.

Re: Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King But many minds are in agreement that God exists, so that must be true ? And must unicorns exist because I believe that they do ? [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 11/15/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following

Re: Re: On the ontological status of elementary arithmetic

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Infinity is not communicable. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 11/15/2012 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-03, 12:33:49 Subject:

Re: Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King He's got his work cut out for him, not so much as casting doubt on other's theories, but in explaining all of the data obtained with alternate theorie. In which case, the Big Bang simply happened another way than that taught. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]

Re: Weyl on mathematics vs. reality

2012-11-15 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 15.11.2012 17:10 Roger Clough said the following: Hi Evgenii Rudnyi Perhaps strings might better model materials and their behavior than current chemistry and materials science can. And suggest the possibioity of creating new materials (composistes) as well as explaining little understood

Re: Monads and the Diophantine equantions.

2012-11-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/15/2012 11:06 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal No connection, I was just looking at the meaning of the Diophantine equations. Their meanings as categories possibly. Ie, can numbers be categorized by the D eqns they fit ? If some numbers fit these equations , do they have some

Re: In the beginning were the numbers

2012-11-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/15/2012 11:18 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King and Bruno, Perhaps these problems below fade away if you think of numbers in this way: In the beginning were the numbers and the numbers were with Mind and the numbers were Mind. Dear Roger, In the Beginning was the Word, and

Re: Re: My embarassing misunderstanding of the intelligence of computers

2012-11-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, November 15, 2012 9:42:25 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg Everything has at least some intelligence or consciousness, according to Leibniz's metaphysics, even rocks. But these bare naked monads are essentially in deep, drugged sleep and darkness, or at

Re: Re: I am a realist rather than a nominalist because universal gravityexists.

2012-11-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, November 15, 2012 9:36:44 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg Yes, Berkeley's solopsism is impossible to disprove, so your theory that perception causes existence holds. But, forgive me, how do you know that there are other people to report your findings to ? We

Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-15 Thread meekerdb
On 11/15/2012 6:41 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/15/2012 6:20 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno and Russell, The evidence of a Big Bang is enormous. See, for example: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/astronomy/bigbang.html Hi Roger, I invite you to read James P. Hogan's /Kicking the

Re: Arithmetic doesn't even suggest geometry, let alone awareness.

2012-11-15 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.comwrote: There is no mathematical justification for geometry though that I can think of. There are ways that numbers can describe geometry and ways that geometry can describe numbers. What more do you need? So the fact that

Re: the God hypothesis

2012-11-15 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Leibniz thought that everything needs a sufficient reason to exist as it does. And we now know that Leibniz was DEAD WRONG about that, we now know that some things happen for no reason whatsoever. And in general that's

Re: Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:20:14AM -0600, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno and Russell, The evidence of a Big Bang is enormous. See, for example: Of course, but the big bang is not the same thing as the beginning of the universe. Also, the cosmic microwave background, which is the direct

Re: Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 08:55:10AM +1100, Russell Standish wrote: Actually, according to Wikipedia: Though the universe might in theory have a longer history, the International Astronomical Union [4] presently use age of the universe to mean the duration of the Lambda-CDM expansion, or

Re: Emergence of Properties

2012-11-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/15/2012 11:27 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King But many minds are in agreement that God exists, so that must be true ? Hi Roger, In my proposed definitions, must only follows if and only if there is no accessible possible world where a contraindication of the agreement

Re: Arithmetic doesn't even suggest geometry, let alone awareness.

2012-11-15 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, November 15, 2012 3:43:03 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: There is no mathematical justification for geometry though that I can think of. There are ways that numbers can describe geometry

Re: (mathematical) solipsism

2012-11-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/15/2012 11:28 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King Mind is the fundamental nonphysical primitive out of which all physical things were created and which governs them. Dear Roger, That implies a subtle contradiction as the postulation of mind as primitive implies that its

Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/15/2012 11:45 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King He's got his work cut out for him, not so much as casting doubt on other's theories, but in explaining all of the data obtained with alternate theorie. In which case, the Big Bang simply happened another way than that taught. Dear

Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/15/2012 3:39 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 11/15/2012 6:41 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/15/2012 6:20 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno and Russell, The evidence of a Big Bang is enormous. See, for example: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/astronomy/bigbang.html Hi Roger, I invite you

Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-15 Thread meekerdb
On 11/15/2012 5:07 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/15/2012 3:39 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 11/15/2012 6:41 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/15/2012 6:20 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno and Russell, The evidence of a Big Bang is enormous. See, for example:

Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/15/2012 7:42 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 11/15/2012 5:07 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/15/2012 3:39 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 11/15/2012 6:41 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/15/2012 6:20 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno and Russell, The evidence of a Big Bang is enormous. See, for

Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-15 Thread meekerdb
On 11/15/2012 6:55 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/15/2012 7:42 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 11/15/2012 5:07 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/15/2012 3:39 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 11/15/2012 6:41 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/15/2012 6:20 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno and Russell, The

Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/15/2012 8:21 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 11/15/2012 6:55 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/15/2012 7:42 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 11/15/2012 5:07 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/15/2012 3:39 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 11/15/2012 6:41 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 11/15/2012 6:20 AM, Roger Clough

Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-15 Thread meekerdb
On 11/15/2012 8:05 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: ?? Speaking without permission of the judge may be illegal in open court. Why is that the standard for anything? If you think Hogan has some insight into cosmology, let's hear it. I'm certainly not going to waste my money on his book. My

Re: 14 billion years ago there was a huge explosion

2012-11-15 Thread Stephen P. King
On 11/15/2012 9:09 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 11/15/2012 8:05 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: ?? Speaking without permission of the judge may be illegal in open court. Why is that the standard for anything? If you think Hogan has some insight into cosmology, let's hear it. I'm certainly not going