Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Oct 2014, at 21:08, meekerdb wrote: On 10/27/2014 9:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What remains amazing is the negative amplitude of probability, but then that is what I show being still possible thanks to the presence of an arithmetical quantization in arithmetic, at the place

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread LizR
On 25 October 2014 06:16, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: And doesn't such a god exist necessarily in the UD? And doesn't the egomanical, despotic god of Abraham also exist necessarily? As well as all the gods of Olympus and the Norse gods and the Hindu gods... Is this true? And do

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread Richard Ruquist
I have not seen any discussion of what Bruno calls the Gaussian nature of comp or MWI with which he claims that his beliefs in this universe are not found in the negative in other universes of the multiverse. I referred to this as the GWI of reality and suggested that it might be consistent with

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Oct 2014, at 13:05, Richard Ruquist wrote: I have not seen any discussion of what Bruno calls the Gaussian nature of comp or MWI with which he claims that his beliefs in this universe are not found in the negative in other universes of the multiverse. It is like the quantum white

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Oct 2014, at 10:57, LizR wrote: On 25 October 2014 06:16, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: And doesn't such a god exist necessarily in the UD? And doesn't the egomanical, despotic god of Abraham also exist necessarily? As well as all the gods of Olympus and the Norse gods and

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 27 Oct 2014, at 13:05, Richard Ruquist wrote: I have not seen any discussion of what Bruno calls the Gaussian nature of comp or MWI with which he claims that his beliefs in this universe are not found in the

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread meekerdb
On 10/27/2014 2:57 AM, LizR wrote: On 25 October 2014 06:16, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: And doesn't such a god exist necessarily in the UD? And doesn't the egomanical, despotic god of Abraham also exist necessarily? As well as all the gods of

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread meekerdb
On 10/27/2014 9:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: What remains amazing is the negative amplitude of probability, but then that is what I show being still possible thanks to the presence of an arithmetical quantization in arithmetic, at the place we need the probabilities. I don't recall you having

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Brent, I recall reading a few papers that discussed this question. I think that one can only obtain Hermiticity http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hermitian with complex valued amplitudes. Self-adjointness does not obtain very easily On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:08 PM, meekerdb

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-27 Thread LizR
On 28 October 2014 08:51, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/27/2014 2:57 AM, LizR wrote: On 25 October 2014 06:16, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: And doesn't such a god exist necessarily in the UD? And doesn't the egomanical, despotic god of Abraham also exist

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Oct 2014, at 19:16, meekerdb wrote: On 10/24/2014 8:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Oct 2014, at 17:17, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:30 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/8/2014 5:07 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:50 PM, meekerdb

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Oct 2014, at 17:17, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:30 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/8/2014 5:07 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:50 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/8/2014 10:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Oct 2014,

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-24 Thread meekerdb
On 10/24/2014 8:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Oct 2014, at 17:17, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:30 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/8/2014 5:07 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:50 PM, meekerdb

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Oct 2014, at 21:42, meekerdb wrote: On 10/20/2014 9:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Oct 2014, at 22:13, meekerdb wrote: On 10/19/2014 8:12 AM, Jason Resch wrote: I don't recall Bruno ever csaying if you don't believe in something then you believe in it. What he's said is that

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Oct 2014, at 22:13, meekerdb wrote: On 10/19/2014 8:12 AM, Jason Resch wrote: I don't recall Bruno ever csaying if you don't believe in something then you believe in it. What he's said is that atheists defend/support/reinforce the same idea/conception of god that the literalist or

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-20 Thread meekerdb
On 10/20/2014 9:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Oct 2014, at 22:13, meekerdb wrote: On 10/19/2014 8:12 AM, Jason Resch wrote: I don't recall Bruno ever csaying if you don't believe in something then you believe in it. What he's said is that atheists defend/support/reinforce the same

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
I don't recall Bruno ever csaying if you don't believe in something then you believe in it. What he's said is that atheists defend/support/reinforce the same idea/conception of god that the literalist or fundamentalist abrahamic religions use. Atheists can't say there is no God without defining

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Oct 2014, at 07:22, meekerdb wrote: On 10/16/2014 12:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Oct 2014, at 13:23, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Aha! Now what of Boltzmann Brains and how this topic is undervalued by the intellects here. The UD is more general than the Boltzman

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Thursday, October 16, 2014, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/16/2014 12:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Oct 2014, at 05:28, meekerdb wrote: On 10/15/2014 7:25 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:00 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Bruno

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-19 Thread LizR
On 20 October 2014 04:23, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, October 16, 2014, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: And to believe that something does not exist, you need a precise version of it. No, you just need a definite version. The god I don't believe in is the

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 1:41 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 October 2014 04:23, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, October 16, 2014, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: And to believe that something does not exist, you need a precise version of it. No, you

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-19 Thread meekerdb
On 10/19/2014 8:12 AM, Jason Resch wrote: I don't recall Bruno ever csaying if you don't believe in something then you believe in it. What he's said is that atheists defend/support/reinforce the same idea/conception of god that the literalist or fundamentalist abrahamic religions use.

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-19 Thread meekerdb
On 10/19/2014 8:23 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thursday, October 16, 2014, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/16/2014 12:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Oct 2014, at 05:28, meekerdb wrote: On 10/15/2014 7:25 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-19 Thread meekerdb
On 10/19/2014 9:33 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:13 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/19/2014 8:12 AM, Jason Resch wrote: I don't recall Bruno ever csaying if you don't believe in something then you

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-19 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:13 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/19/2014 8:12 AM, Jason Resch wrote: I don't recall Bruno ever csaying if you don't believe in something then you believe in it. What he's said is that atheists defend/support/reinforce the same idea/conception of

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 22:53, LizR wrote: On 16 October 2014 17:00, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: I suggest that believing and not believing in anything is consistent with MWI (and therefore comp) for if you believe something in one world, you will fail to believe in it in some

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-18 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Glashow's Crazy idea, but is it crazy enough to be true? -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Oct 18, 2014 1:22 am Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread LizR
On 17 October 2014 03:54, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:44 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like doublethink to mewhich was of course a virtue and a necessity if you lived on Airstrip One. Yes but without doublethink how could we have

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread LizR
On the subject of atheists and whether they have a definite concept of god, etc etc --- well, atheists are (in my experience) dogmatic that they are sure there is nothing to the universe(s) except something like matter, energy, space and time (or a quantum field, vectors in Hilbert space, or

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 16:39, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:44 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like doublethink to mewhich was of course a virtue and a necessity if you lived on Airstrip One. Right. If I remember correctly, peculiar machine is

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 16:48, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Telmo, You wrote: If I understand the ideas in Mitra's paper correctly, wouldn't it require that you yourself had forgotten about the discussion?

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread zibbsey
On Monday, October 6, 2014 7:15:44 PM UTC+1, Brent wrote: Here's an interesting interview of a philosopher who is interested in the question of whether God exists. The interesting thing about it, for this list, is that God is implicitly the god of theism, and is not one's reason for

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 16 Oct 2014, at 16:39, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:44 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like doublethink to mewhich was of course a virtue and a necessity if you lived on

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 18:27, meekerdb wrote: On 10/16/2014 12:17 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Oct 2014, at 04:00, meekerdb wrote: Bruno seems to think that if you fail to believe in the existence of Santa Claus you must have a definite idea of what Santa Claus refers to and therefore you

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread Stephen Paul King
[SPK] I have a suspicion as to how this might happen. I think that it may be evidence of part of Bruno's argument that we are not single computations. If our individual minds span over all of the brains that could implement them and each brain is tied into a single physical world, then so

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 18:43, meekerdb wrote: On 10/16/2014 12:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Oct 2014, at 05:28, meekerdb wrote: On 10/15/2014 7:25 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:00 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Bruno seems to think that if you

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread meekerdb
On 10/17/2014 2:01 AM, LizR wrote: On the subject of atheists and whether they have a definite concept of god, etc etc --- well, atheists are (in my experience) dogmatic that they are sure there is nothing to the universe(s) except something like matter, energy, space and time (or a quantum

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread meekerdb
On 10/17/2014 8:01 AM, zibb...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, October 6, 2014 7:15:44 PM UTC+1, Brent wrote: Here's an interesting interview of a philosopher who is interested in the question of whether God exists. The interesting thing about it, for this list, is that God is

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-17 Thread meekerdb
On 10/16/2014 12:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Oct 2014, at 13:23, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Aha! Now what of Boltzmann Brains and how this topic is undervalued by the intellects here. The UD is more general than the Boltzman brain. It contains the web of all Boltzmann

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread LizR
Sounds like doublethink to mewhich was of course a virtue and a necessity if you lived on Airstrip One. On 16 October 2014 18:21, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:28 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I works with house and Brent

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
am Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore? On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Are you at war with Islam? No, I'm not at war with anyone. Why should God put terror in your heart? Because God

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore? On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I suggest to define God by either the physical universe OR what is at the origin of the physical universe, Then if modern

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Oct 2014, at 18:56, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I suggest to define God by either the physical universe OR what is at the origin of the physical universe, Then if modern cosmologists are even close to being

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 01:29, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: The stupidity prize you made up is clearly yours to claim, Oh I've said plenty of stupid thinks in my time, but I don't think I can compete with Bruno's Atheism, as

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 04:00, meekerdb wrote: Bruno seems to think that if you fail to believe in the existence of Santa Claus you must have a definite idea of what Santa Claus refers to and therefore you do believe in Santa Claus. A curious inference for a logician. Brent, are you trying

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 05:28, meekerdb wrote: On 10/15/2014 7:25 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:00 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Bruno seems to think that if you fail to believe in the existence of Santa Claus you must have a definite idea of what

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 05:32, LizR wrote: Is this a fair comment, Bruno? No. See my answer to Brent. Tell me if you see the point. I have never said that atheists believe in God, only that they share the same concept of God than the (fundamentalist) christians. I only say that atheists

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 05:40, LizR wrote: I don't believe that's what Bruno means Thanks God! Bruno (which if I'm wrong means I DO believe that's what he means.cleardot[1].gif..) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 06:00, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:28 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/15/2014 7:25 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:00 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Bruno seems to think that if you fail to

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
The key point is that atheist don't believe in God, but believe that God deos not exist. But to have such a belief you need to believe that you have the right notion of God, and this is what they share with the christian: the same conception of God, even if it is to assert its non

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Telmo, One event involved an email exchange that I has with two people. We where discussing theories of emergent space-time. Nothing really consequential. It didn't go anywhere as on of the persons

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
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Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Telmo, You wrote: If I understand the ideas in Mitra's paper correctly, wouldn't it require that you yourself had forgotten about the discussion? That is what I thought at first as well and concluded that it was just a misremembering or delusion. But I could not shake how well

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:44 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like doublethink to mewhich was of course a virtue and a necessity if you lived on Airstrip One. Right. If I remember correctly, peculiar machine is inaccurate but not necessarily inconsistent. So you have to

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Telmo, You wrote: If I understand the ideas in Mitra's paper correctly, wouldn't it require that you yourself had forgotten about the discussion? That is what I thought at first as well and

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:44 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like doublethink to mewhich was of course a virtue and a necessity if you lived on Airstrip One. Yes but without doublethink how could we have religion? And how could a logician say Atheism, as I know it, is a slight

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Educate yourself by reading the excellent book by Lawrence M Krauss A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing. It assumes still enough physicalism so that he put still some magic in the brain.

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Telmo, On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Telmo, You wrote: If I understand the ideas in Mitra's paper correctly, wouldn't it require that you

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread meekerdb
On 10/16/2014 12:17 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Oct 2014, at 04:00, meekerdb wrote: Bruno seems to think that if you fail to believe in the existence of Santa Claus you must have a definite idea of what Santa Claus refers to and therefore you do believe in Santa Claus. A curious

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread meekerdb
On 10/16/2014 12:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Oct 2014, at 05:28, meekerdb wrote: On 10/15/2014 7:25 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:00 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Bruno seems to think that if you fail to

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread meekerdb
On 10/16/2014 12:36 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The key point is that atheist don't believe in God, but believe that God deos not exist. But to have such a belief you need to believe that you have the right notion of God, and this is what they share with the christian: the same conception of God,

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Oct 2014, at 17:20, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Educate yourself by reading the excellent book by Lawrence M Krauss A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing. It assumes still enough

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-16 Thread LizR
On 16 October 2014 17:00, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: I suggest that believing and not believing in anything is consistent with MWI (and therefore comp) for if you believe something in one world, you will fail to believe in it in some other world. That's equivalent to extending

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Stephen, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@charter.net wrote: Hi Brent, I have had a couple of experiences that proved to me that there exists something like the theist God. Things that I can not explain otherwise are some kind of divine intervention that

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Aha! Now what of Boltzmann Brains and how this topic is undervalued by the intellects here. -Original Message- From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Oct 14, 2014 7:30 pm Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Oct 2014, at 01:30, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I suggest to define God by either the physical universe OR what is at the origin of the physical universe, Then if modern cosmologists are even close to being correct

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Telmo, One event involved an email exchange that I has with two people. We where discussing theories of emergent space-time. Nothing really consequential. It didn't go anywhere as on of the persons said that I had to wait for his paper to be published for further information on his theory.

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
. -Original Message- From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Oct 14, 2014 7:30 pm Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore? On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Bruno Marchal marc

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I suggest to define God by either the physical universe OR what is at the origin of the physical universe, Then if modern cosmologists are even close to being correct God is not omniscient, God isn't even very smart,

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:56 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: which again confirm my point (you know the one which trigger your bot-like answer). If you don't like my bot-like answer then stop making the exact same bot-like accusation; I give the stupidity prize to Atheism,

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
article on ARXIV I'd Rather See One Than Be One.). -Original Message- From: Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Oct 15, 2014 11:30 am Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: The stupidity prize you made up is clearly yours to claim, Oh I've said plenty of stupid thinks in my time, but I don't think I can compete with Bruno's Atheism, as I know it, is a slight variant of christianism.

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread LizR
I think I can see what he means, whether or not you agree with him. On 16 October 2014 12:29, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: The stupidity prize you made up is clearly yours to claim, Oh I've said plenty

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread meekerdb
Bruno seems to think that if you fail to believe in the existence of Santa Claus you must have a definite idea of what Santa Claus refers to and therefore you do believe in Santa Claus. A curious inference for a logician. Brent On 10/15/2014 6:29 PM, LizR wrote: I think I can see what he

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:00 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Bruno seems to think that if you fail to believe in the existence of Santa Claus you must have a definite idea of what Santa Claus refers to and therefore you do believe in Santa Claus. A curious inference for a logician.

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread meekerdb
On 10/15/2014 7:25 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:00 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Bruno seems to think that if you fail to believe in the existence of Santa Claus you must have a definite idea of what Santa Claus

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread LizR
Is this a fair comment, Bruno? On 16 October 2014 15:00, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Bruno seems to think that if you fail to believe in the existence of Santa Claus you must have a definite idea of what Santa Claus refers to and therefore you do believe in Santa Claus. A curious

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread LizR
I don't believe that's what Bruno means (which if I'm wrong means I DO believe that's what he means.[image: Inline images 1]..) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:28 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/15/2014 7:25 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:00 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Bruno seems to think that if you fail to believe in the existence of Santa Claus you must

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-15 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:28 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I works with house and Brent too. What's curious is that failing to believe in anything implies that you do believe in it. I suppose it goes along with the spirit of everything. If I can think of it clearly enough to

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On 14-Oct-2014, at 5:03 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: If the Quran has told Muslims to put terror into the hearts of the unbelievers

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Oct 2014, at 17:02, Samiya Illias wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 09 Oct 2014, at 21:06, Samiya Illias wrote: On 09-Oct-2014, at 11:42 pm, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Oct 2014, at 17:30, Samiya Illias wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 10 Oct 2014, at 05:40, Samiya Illias wrote: On 10-Oct-2014, at 3:21 am, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Samiya, I did not participate in the sequence about

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Oct 2014, at 18:33, Samiya Illias wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 10 Oct 2014, at 20:37, Samiya Illias wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 10 Oct 2014, at 00:21, John Mikes

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread Samiya Illias
On 14-Oct-2014, at 3:28 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Oct 2014, at 18:33, Samiya Illias wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 10 Oct 2014, at 20:37, Samiya Illias wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Bruno

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On 14-Oct-2014, at 3:28 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Oct 2014, at 18:33, Samiya Illias wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 10 Oct 2014, at

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 5:33 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/13/2014 9:26 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:17 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/12/2014 2:35 PM, LizR wrote: I imagine most philosophers don't think about God because

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore? On 14-Oct-2014, at 3:28 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Oct 2014, at 18:33, Samiya Illias wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 10 Oct 2014, at 20:37

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On 14-Oct-2014, at 12:51 am, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Is there something like an internet publicity chapter in the Qu'ran (I assume there must be some things related to men of

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread Samiya Illias
On 14-Oct-2014, at 6:28 pm, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On 14-Oct-2014, at 3:28 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Oct 2014, at 18:33, Samiya Illias wrote: On Sun,

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Are you at war with Islam? No, I'm not at war with anyone. Why should God put terror in your heart? Because God is obviously a sadist and gets off on bondage. Why else would God spend a infinite number of years

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Oct 14, 2014 11:01 am Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore? On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Are you at war with Islam? No, I'm not at war with anyone

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Oct 14, 2014 11:01 am Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore? On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Are you at war with Islam

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: John, Instead of God, what do you propose as a substitute for all the awful suffering you have accurately, cited? That's asking a awful lot of me, I don't have a solution that will eliminate the

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Very Good. Thanks Mitch -Original Message- From: John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Oct 14, 2014 12:24 pm Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore? On Tue, Oct 14, 2014

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Oct 2014, at 18:26, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:17 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/12/2014 2:35 PM, LizR wrote: I imagine most philosophers don't think about God because God isn't a very good explanation for anything. You just have to

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Oct 2014, at 09:16, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On 14-Oct-2014, at 5:03 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: If the Quran has told

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Oct 2014, at 19:37, Samiya Illias wrote: On 13-Oct-2014, at 8:54 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Oct 2014, at 18:36, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: Consider the following verses of Chapter

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Oct 2014, at 20:19, Samiya Illias wrote: On 13-Oct-2014, at 10:37 pm, Samiya Illias samiyaill...@gmail.com wrote: On 13-Oct-2014, at 8:54 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 12 Oct 2014, at 18:36, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Samiya Illias

Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore?

2014-10-14 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Brent, I have had a couple of experiences that proved to me that there exists something like the theist God. Things that I can not explain otherwise are some kind of divine intervention that saved my life. Could there be an explanation that is completely secular? I am open to such, but

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