Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

> On 11 Mar 2021, at 03:00, spudboy100 via Everything List > wrote: > > Well for this knuckle dragging savage, I compulsively am driven towards how > can our species make use of science and philosophy to make life better? > 99,9% of the human problem comes mainly from dishonesty, and people w

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

Am Do, 11. Mär 2021, um 04:43, schrieb Jason Resch: > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 8:00 PM spudboy100 via Everything List > wrote: >> Well for this knuckle dragging savage, I compulsively am driven towards how >> can our species make use of science and philosophy to make life better? We >> may

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

> On 11 Mar 2021, at 05:43, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 8:00 PM spudboy100 via Everything List > mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com>> > wrote: > Well for this knuckle dragging savage, I compulsively am driven towards how > can our species make use of science and ph

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On Friday, March 12, 2021 at 1:03:38 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > > > On 3/11/2021 2:23 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 10:27:35 PM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > >> >> >> On 3/11/2021 9:44 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 1:26:27 AM UTC+1 Bruce wr

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

> On 11 Mar 2021, at 03:09, spudboy100 via Everything List > wrote: > > Only if we could break into other worldliness does MWI seem interesting. > The question is “is it true”. Truth does not care about us finding it interesting or not. Imagine that you discover that an asteroid will destro

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

> On 10 Mar 2021, at 18:29, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 3/10/2021 1:18 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:40:51 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: >> >> >> On 3/9/2021 3:52 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 12

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

> On 10 Mar 2021, at 22:43, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 3/10/2021 7:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 10 Mar 2021, at 00:19, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List >>> >> > wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 3/9/2021 2:00 PM, Bru

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

> On 10 Mar 2021, at 23:38, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 4:12:21 PM UTC+1 Bruno Marchal wrote: >> On 10 Mar 2021, at 00:03, Tomas Pales > > wrote: >> >> The law of identity determines what can possibly exist, namely that which is >> identical to itself. But what

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

Bruno, I am sure that if one parallel earth never produced cannabis and the people travel through, there would be a market. Thus, capitalism is a multi-universal force that many here would find discouraging. From dealing with physics as we know it to be, and not wander off into dark matter specu

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

> On 11 Mar 2021, at 00:52, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 12:15:43 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > > > On 3/10/2021 2:41 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:29:13 PM UTC+1 Brent wrote: >> >> >> On 3/10/2021 1:18 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: >>

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

Now what we had were Republics, Bruno, not democracies. The Italians had these republics, for some, in the late middle ages in which the power of the nobles was contained a bit. For the US being a republic today, was not true for a long time. Not when politicians in the US absolutely require lot

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

> On 11 Mar 2021, at 18:52, John Clark wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 5:56 PM Jason Resch > wrote: > > > I believe Chaitin has a definition of randomness that works for finite > > strings. If I remember correctly it has to do with the length of the > >

Re: more books on quantum foundations

> On 11 Mar 2021, at 20:58, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 3/11/2021 3:51 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> When doing theology (aka metaphysics) with the scientific method, it is >> better to not commit oneself in any ontological assumption at the start > > That's pretty

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

> On 11 Mar 2021, at 19:05, John Clark wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 8:09 AM Jason Resch > wrote: > > > So if 2+2=4, then thoughts exist. > > But if I think 2+2 = 5 then thoughts still exist, That is ambiguous. Strictly speaking if 2+2=5, I am the pop

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On Friday, March 12, 2021 at 1:30:55 PM UTC+1 Bruno Marchal wrote: I translate this by “an object is an element of a set together with some > structure or laws. OK? So vectors, numbers, maps, can all be seen as > (mathematical) object. > Yes. (And with mechanism, we can then deduce that the

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

> On 11 Mar 2021, at 20:20, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > Am Do, 11. Mär 2021, um 18:05, schrieb John Clark: >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 8:09 AM Jason Resch > > wrote: >> >> > So if 2+2=4, then thoughts exist. >> >> But if I think 2+2 = 5 then thoughts stil

Re: Parallel Worlds Probably Exist. Here’s Why

> On 10 Mar 2021, at 22:49, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 3/10/2021 7:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 9 Mar 2021, at 20:06, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List >>> >> > wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 3/9/2021 5:29 AM, Brun

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 4:00:51 PM UTC-6 Bruce wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 6:00 AM Jason Resch wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:41 AM Lawrence Crowell >> wrote: >> >>> Nothingness is a paradoxical thing. Does nothingness exist? If so, then >>> by having existential properties it

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 4:30:26 PM UTC-6 medinuclear wrote: > [*Brent Meeker*] > > “https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/#A_Story_of_Creation” > > [*Philip Benjamin*] If nothing ever existed, nothing can exist today. “Ex > nihilo, nihil fit” (Parmenides). Laws of any kind necess

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 2:20 PM Telmo Menezes wrote: >>without the laws of physics a Turing machine can't exist, > > > *> The laws of physics are a human construct.* > No. Humans are a law of physics construct. > * > Mathematically different sets of laws can fit the same experimental > results

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On 3/12/2021 12:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: So, the algorithm to save democracy and science would be 1) abolish the prohibition laws (or equivalently, reinstate the free-market, If you lived in Texas, you'd have a $16,000 electric bill.  :-) Brent -- You received this message because you a

RE: [Consciousness-Online] pagans vs non pagans

[Philip Benjamin] Viewing God as the Universe is a working theory for some scholars of science who assume that it “kind of lend itself to Boltzmann Brain fascination” and ”as an American philosopher Jack Handey once wrote that they say that a little bit of God is inside everyone's heart”.

FW: [Consciousness-Online] pagans vs non pagans

general_the...@googlegroups.com Subject: FW: [Consciousness-Online] pagans vs non pagans [Philip Benjamin] Viewing God as the Universe is a working theory for some scholars of science who assume that it “kind of lend itself to Boltzmann Brain fascinat

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On 3/12/2021 1:09 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Friday, March 12, 2021 at 1:03:38 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: On 3/11/2021 2:23 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 10:27:35 PM UTC+1 Brent wrote: On 3/11/2021 9:44 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Thursday,