Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-04 Thread Brent Meeker
On 9/4/2010 5:28 PM, Rex Allen wrote: On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: On 9/4/2010 12:45 AM, Rex Allen wrote: In what way are my proposed explanations "quasi-physical" instead of just physical? Brain-in-vat and the-universe-as-a-computer-simulation are no

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-04 Thread Rex Allen
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: > On 9/4/2010 12:45 AM, Rex Allen wrote: >> In what way are my proposed explanations "quasi-physical" instead of >> just physical? >> > > Brain-in-vat and the-universe-as-a-computer-simulation are not really > physical theories since they assume

RE: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-04 Thread Stephen P. King
Dear Brent, From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-l...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brent Meeker Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 7:39 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: What's wrong with this? On 9/4/2010 12:45 AM, Rex Allen wrote: On Sat, Sep 4,

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-04 Thread Brent Meeker
On 9/4/2010 12:45 AM, Rex Allen wrote: On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Brent Meeker wrote: You've made up some just-so stories about how some other quasi-physical explanation *might* be adopted. In what way are my proposed explanations "quasi-physical" instead of just physical?

Sami-List purpose

2010-09-04 Thread John Mikes
Dear Sami, thanks for your multiple agreement, (not that I could do anything if we disagree - except acknowledging it) in your 9-3-10 post in which you wrote among others: * *"The subject of this group: to discuss the idea that all possible universes exist. * *Here "exist" is used in the absolute,

Re: What's wrong with this? ("And Another Thing" edition)

2010-09-04 Thread Rex Allen
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Brent Meeker wrote: > You can always speculate that any > regularity we note is just a false positive  that in inevitable in an > infinite universe - but that will convince no one. Also, I think you're underestimating the extent to which people will re-evaluate the

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-04 Thread Rex Allen
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Brent Meeker wrote: > > You've made up some just-so stories about how some other quasi-physical > explanation *might* be adopted. In what way are my proposed explanations "quasi-physical" instead of just physical? > You haven't show that they *would* be > preferr