Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:26 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 January 2015 at 18:27, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Do you believe that *one and only one* of the following statements is true? the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 0 the 10^(10^(10^100))th

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 20 Jan 2015, at 13:43, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Rex, Interesting read. I will just start with something I've been thinking about, along these lines (I believe). It is interesting that there are a number of models

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: John Clark wrote: On 18 January 2015 at 18:27, Jason Resch

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:27 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: If you completely discard the concept of truth and replace it entirely with evolutionary usefulness - does that change anything? I think it might. For example, suppose we all

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:49 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: the man who invented the condom transcend Darwinism. I disagree. We are all still all the product of Darwinist processes. We are all at

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:00 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:46 PM, LizR wrote: On 18 January 2015 at 18:27, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Do you believe that *one and only one* of the following statements is true? the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:46 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 January 2015 at 18:27, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Do you believe that *one and only one* of the following statements is true? the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 0 the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread Bruce Kellett
Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: John Clark wrote: On 18 January 2015 at 18:27, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com mailto:jasonre...@gmail.com mailto:jasonre...@gmail.com

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Rex Allen rexallen31...@gmail.com wrote: I think my main problem with platonism is that I don't see why a mathematical universe would generate beings who then develop true beliefs about the mathematical nature of the universe. The purpose of brains is to

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi John, I just have a simple question then. Do you know you're conscious? Cheers! Telmo. Brent, Telmo and all others 'consciousness' anchored members: It is an easy cop-out to say the c term is too complicated to be identified. If we want to use it we better knowWHAT we wnt to use. My

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: John Clark wrote: On 18 January 2015 at 18:27, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com mailto: jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Do you believe that *one and only one* of the following statements is

Re: Isn't this group supposed to be about trying to figure out how the universe works and not so much about religion and insults?

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Jan 2015, at 23:19, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I use God in the sense of the platonist, who introduced the field of inquiry theology. Not that it matters much what some guy who lived 2500 years ago thought but Plato didn't

Re: Isn't this group supposed to be about trying to figure out how the universe works and not so much about religion and insults?

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Jan 2015, at 01:33, meekerdb wrote: On 1/20/2015 9:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Ex(x+x=4) just means there is number OK. as defined by Peano's axioms that provably satisfies the expression. Not at all. That means that PA believes Ex(x+x=4). ?? But you use []p to equally mean

Re: The Weakness of Panpsychism?

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Jan 2015, at 18:18, David Nyman wrote: On 20 January 2015 at 17:11, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: At this point, I'm somewhat persuaded that this broader sense of truth, in approximately Descartes' sense, is in fact highly relevant to what is special and, so to speak,

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Jan 2015, at 16:28, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: We need not transcend Darwinism. Darwin doesn't explain the entire universe, but much of it rather successfully, perhaps as Lee Smolin indicates, stars, galaxies, black holes, etc as well? My interest and guess is that QI,

Re: Isn't this group supposed to be about trying to figure out how the universe works and not so much about religion and insults?

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Jan 2015, at 01:27, meekerdb wrote: On 1/20/2015 9:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The only problem with using god for definition of god (large or small) is that it's circular. You repeatedly write things like above, My belief in God is trivial. All machine introspecting are

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Kim Jones
On 22 Jan 2015, at 6:07 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/21/2015 10:09 PM, Kim Jones wrote: But the laws surely are not random. Laws cannot be random. Look, the universe is a setup job. Either we are simulated and the limitation to our minds is intentional or we are

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Jan 2015, at 13:43, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Rex, Interesting read. I will just start with something I've been thinking about, along these lines (I believe). It is interesting that there are a number of models of reality that are prima facie as plausible as any other but are more

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Jan 2015, at 04:53, meekerdb wrote: On 1/20/2015 5:54 PM, Rex Allen wrote: Hi Telmo, Is there a better starting point than consciousness? My main thought was to suggest that the theory of evolution, taken to it's logical conclusion, supports a Kantian division of reality into

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Jan 2015, at 21:43, Kim Jones wrote: On 20 Jan 2015, at 11:43 pm, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: These models tend to have something in common: they suggest that we are not what we appear to be, that we are not mortal or immortal because time itself is a dream.

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jan 2015, at 00:53, LizR wrote: On 20 January 2015 at 06:36, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 18 Jan 2015, at 20:42, meekerdb wrote: On 1/18/2015 6:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: With the definition you gave in a preceding post, and with which I agree, everyone believe in some

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2015-01-22 16:37 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 21 Jan 2015, at 19:46, Quentin Anciaux wrote: In the end... if you cannot doubt god because of the way you define it... then not only you're not atheist (seems obvious)... but you're not agnostic either, you're what is called a

Re: The Weakness of Panpsychism?

2015-01-22 Thread David Nyman
On 22 January 2015 at 08:22, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Because with sufficiently big infinity in both mind and matter, you can a priori singularize the experience and the body in a way such that duplication is no more possible, and there is no more FPI, and we can use the old

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jan 2015, at 02:00, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:46 PM, LizR wrote: On 18 January 2015 at 18:27, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Do you believe that one and only one of the following statements is true? the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 0 the

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Jan 2015, at 21:56, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: In the end... if you cannot doubt god because of the way you define it... then not only you're not atheist (seems obvious).. but you're not agnostic either, you're what is called a

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: So one of them is true, but can you (or anyone in this universe) prove: the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 0 ? the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 1 ? the

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 3:30 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:00 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:46 PM, LizR wrote: On 18 January 2015 at 18:27, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com mailto:jasonre...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:17 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 1:00 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2015, at 04:53, meekerdb wrote: On 1/20/2015 5:54 PM, Rex Allen wrote: Hi Telmo, Is there a better starting point than consciousness? My main thought was to

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:28 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: So one of them is true, but can you (or anyone in this universe) prove: the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 0 ?

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 4:05 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:27 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: If you completely discard the concept of truth and replace it entirely with

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 4:27 AM, Jason Resch wrote: False beliefs are detrimental to survival. E.g. if a society believed that winter would not come again, they might not store food away for those harder times. If another society didn't believe in GR, they wouldn't have been able to make GPS satellites

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:25 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 3:30 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:00 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:46 PM, LizR wrote: On 18 January 2015 at 18:27, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Jan 2015, at 19:46, Quentin Anciaux wrote: In the end... if you cannot doubt god because of the way you define it... then not only you're not atheist (seems obvious)... but you're not agnostic either, you're what is called a believer... No problem with this. Actually, it is because

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Kim Jones
On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:24 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 9:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2015, at 20:27, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: If you completely discard the concept of truth and replace it entirely with evolutionary

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 7:58 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 2:15 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 6:57 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:24 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 6:57 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:24 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 9:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2015, at 20:27, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: If you completely

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Kim Jones
On 23 Jan 2015, at 2:15 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 6:57 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:24 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 9:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2015, at 20:27, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:48

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 7:45 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2015-01-22 16:37 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 21 Jan 2015, at 19:46, Quentin Anciaux wrote: In the end... if you cannot doubt god because of the way you define it... then not only you're not

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 8:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: In 1910, Henri Ford already asked why to use non renewable oil and not renewable hemp? And the answer was that it was a lot cheaper to use oil from the ground. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 8:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Jan 2015, at 02:00, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:46 PM, LizR wrote: On 18 January 2015 at 18:27, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com mailto:jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Do you believe that *one and only one* of the following

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 9:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2015, at 20:27, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: If you completely discard the concept of truth and replace it entirely with evolutionary usefulness - does that change anything? I think it might. For

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 1:30 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:25 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 3:30 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:00 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Kim Jones
On 23 Jan 2015, at 4:06 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 7:58 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 2:15 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 6:57 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 10:24 am, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jan 2015, at 06:06, 'Roger' via Everything List wrote: Roger: Just because things can exist outside the mind/head doesn't mean that a specific thing does occur outside the mind/head. If the pi proposition and the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal point of pi can be shown outside the

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jan 2015, at 07:48, Bruce Kellett wrote: John Clark wrote: On 18 January 2015 at 18:27, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com mailto:jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: Do you believe that *one and only one* of the following statements is true? the 10^(10^(10^100))th

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Jan 2015, at 20:27, meekerdb wrote: On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: If you completely discard the concept of truth and replace it entirely with evolutionary usefulness - does that change anything? I think it might. For example, suppose we all share the same

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Jan 2015, at 05:58, Rex Allen wrote: I think my main problem with platonism is that I don't see why a mathematical universe would generate beings who then develop true beliefs about the mathematical nature of the universe. But Gödel + Church + Kleene + Post + Turing +

Re: Why was nobody murdered because of this cartoon?

2015-01-22 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:12 PM, chris peck chris_peck...@hotmail.com wrote: We know that the overwhelmingly vast majority of muslims do not turn psychotic in the face of cartoons. And we know that the overwhelmingly vast majority of people who turn psychotic in the face of cartoons are

RE: Why is there something rather than nothing? Tronnies may explain pi's precision.

2015-01-22 Thread John Ross
Tronnies may explain the need for π’s precission. Coulomb’s Law requires that all charged particles be point particles or made from point particles. Tronnies are point particles with a charge of plus e or minus e. Their charge of e means the tronnies are the source of the Coulomb force

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Bruce Kellett bhkell...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Do you believe that *one and only one* of the following statements is true? the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 0 the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of pi is 1

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 1:00 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 21 Jan 2015, at 04:53, meekerdb wrote: On 1/20/2015 5:54 PM, Rex Allen wrote: Hi Telmo, Is there a better starting point than consciousness? My main thought was to suggest that the theory of evolution, taken to it's logical conclusion,

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

2015-01-22 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote Do we know that? Do we know that such a digit exists? It follows from the axioms that there is a certain definite digit. They show you how to generate terms in a sequence and if you add up enough of them you'd get the

Re: Manifesto Rex

2015-01-22 Thread meekerdb
On 1/22/2015 9:44 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 4:06 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 7:58 PM, Kim Jones wrote: On 23 Jan 2015, at 2:15 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/22/2015 6:57