Re: Let There Be Something

2005-10-30 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Norman Samish writes: If the multiverse concept, as I understand it, is true, then anything that can exist does exist, and anything that can happen has happened and will continue to happen, ad infinitum. The sequence of events that we observe has been played in the past, and will be played

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-10-30 Thread Norman Samish
Norman Samish writes: If the multiverse concept, as I understand it, is true, then anything that can exist does exist, and anything that can happen has happened and will continue to happen, ad infinitum. The sequence of events that we observe has been played in the past, and will be

Fwd: Re: Let There Be Something

2005-10-30 Thread John M
--- John M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 08:17:12 -0800 (PST) From: John M [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Let There Be Something To: Norman Samish [EMAIL PROTECTED], everything-list@eskimo.com --- Norman Samish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... --Stathis

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-10-30 Thread John M
--- Norman Samish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... --Stathis Papaioannou: I'll grant you it may be strange, but how is it any more pointless than anything that can happen (or a subset thereof) happening only once, or a finite number of times? Norman Samish writes: If the

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-10-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear John, It is refreshing to see that some people are willing to admit to the implicit solipsism that is at the heart of everyone's notion of being in the world. ;-) We must understand that *all* that we have access to is 1st person and any 3rd person representation is merely an ansatz

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-10-30 Thread John M
Dear Stephen, thanks for the consent. I would use instead of your ansatz rather Ersatz which means rather a non identical substitute, not an implenishing of another person's 1st person opinion (called for me a 3rd person view) when I absorb it as my 1st person variant of it. Thanks again John M

RE: Let There Be Something

2005-10-30 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi John: At 12:02 PM 10/30/2005, you wrote: Stathis, let me address first Tom C's objection addressing the nothing (from which nothing can come out) - and I wonder how Hal will feel about this: All we can talk about as N O TH I N G is that it does not contain anything we know about. It would

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-10-30 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Norman Samish writes: If the multiverse concept, as I understand it, is true, then anything that can exist does exist, and anything that can happen has happened and will continue to happen, ad infinitum. The sequence of events that we observe has been played in the past, and will be played

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-10-30 Thread Kim Jones
Then in making that assertion it follows surely that we (x) are all God (y) and God has no particular attributes that we do not possess, being in some sense equivalent. God would then be equivalent to Life. Stathis may have unwittingly proven the existence of the big G Kim Jones On