Re: Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-19 Thread Roger Clough
no Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-19, 09:49:53 Subject: Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe Hi Roger, On 17 Dec 2012, at 14:05, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal There seems to be some sort of prejudice given to "proof" or "t

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Dec 2012, at 14:28, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:09 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 12/16/2012 9:59 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:44 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 12/16/2012 8:57 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Richard, I believe in the one god of CTM

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-16, 09:59:56 Subject: Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe On 16 Dec 2012, at 14:48, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Bruno Marchal I probably agree, but what is the primitive physical universe ? An

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Dec 2012, at 12:51, Telmo Menezes wrote: I believe in the one god of CTM and its (X & Z) logically derived string theory that is omnipotent (contains and carries out the laws of physics), When people claim that an entity is omnipotent, they are generally implying intentionality on

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Dec 2012, at 20:16, meekerdb wrote: On 12/16/2012 1:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Dec 2012, at 15:00, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King OK, after thinking it over, it seems there's two ways of thinking about L's metaphysics. 1) (My way) The Idealist way, that being L's met

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-17 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:09 AM, meekerdb wrote: > On 12/16/2012 9:59 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:44 AM, meekerdb wrote: >>> >>> On 12/16/2012 8:57 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: >>> >>> Hi Richard, >>> I believe in the one god of CTM and its (X& Z) logically deriv

Re: Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-17 Thread Roger Clough
izon.net] 12/17/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-16, 09:59:56 Subject: Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe On 16 Dec

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-17 Thread Telmo Menezes
> > > >> I believe in the one god of CTM and its (X & Z) logically derived >> string theory that is omnipotent (contains and carries out the laws of >> physics), > > > When people claim that an entity is omnipotent, they are generally > implying intentionality on the part of the entity. > > >> omn

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-16 Thread meekerdb
On 12/16/2012 9:59 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:44 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 12/16/2012 8:57 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Richard, I believe in the one god of CTM and its (X& Z) logically derived string theory that is omnipotent (contains and carries out the laws of phy

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-16 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:44 AM, meekerdb wrote: > On 12/16/2012 8:57 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > Hi Richard, > >> >> I believe in the one god of CTM and its (X & Z) logically derived >> string theory that is omnipotent (contains and carries out the laws of >> physics), > > > When people claim t

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-16 Thread meekerdb
On 12/16/2012 8:57 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Hi Richard, I believe in the one god of CTM and its (X & Z) logically derived string theory that is omnipotent (contains and carries out the laws of physics), When people claim that an entity is omnipotent, they are generally implying

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Richard, > I believe in the one god of CTM and its (X & Z) logically derived > string theory that is omnipotent (contains and carries out the laws of > physics), When people claim that an entity is omnipotent, they are generally implying intentionality on the part of the entity. > omniscie

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-16 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:16 PM, meekerdb wrote: >> >> On 12/16/2012 1:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 06 Dec 2012, at 15:00, Roger Clough wrote: >> >> Hi Stephen P. King >> >> OK, after thinking it over, it seems there's two w

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:16 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 12/16/2012 1:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 06 Dec 2012, at 15:00, Roger Clough wrote: > > Hi Stephen P. King > > OK, after thinking it over, it seems there's two ways of thinking > about L's metaphysics. > > 1) (My way) The Idealist

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-16 Thread meekerdb
On 12/16/2012 1:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 06 Dec 2012, at 15:00, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King OK, after thinking it over, it seems there's two ways of thinking about L's metaphysics. 1) (My way) The Idealist way, that being L's metaphysics as is. 2) (Your way) The atheist/materi

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
). Bruno [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 12/16/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-16, 04:40:19 Subject: Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an &

Re: Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-16 Thread Roger Clough
list Time: 2012-12-16, 04:40:19 Subject: Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe On 06 Dec 2012, at 15:00, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King OK, after thinking it over, it seems there's two ways of thinking about L's metaphysics. 1) (My way) Th

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Dec 2012, at 15:00, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King OK, after thinking it over, it seems there's two ways of thinking about L's metaphysics. 1) (My way) The Idealist way, that being L's metaphysics as is. 2) (Your way) The atheist/materialist way, that being the usual atheist/ma

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-09 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/9/2012 9:03 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hmm With CTM it is simple, if our knowledge augment linearly, our ignorance augments non computably. The more we know, the more we can intuit how much we don't know, making us wiser (with some luck). We can jump from big picture to big picture, b

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Dec 2012, at 00:30, Stephen P. King wrote: On 12/8/2012 2:28 PM, John Mikes wrote: Dear Stephen, it is amazing how we formulate our (belief) systems similarly, except for yours in a descriptive - mine in an agnostic "explanation" (=a joke). Dear John, ;-) I try hard to stay in

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/8/2012 2:28 PM, John Mikes wrote: Dear Stephen, it is amazing how we formulate our (belief) systems similarly, except for yours in a descriptive - mine in an agnostic "explanation" (=a joke). Dear John, ;-) I try hard to stay in a superposed state, somewhere between serious and 'jus

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
phen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-06, 14:02:33 Subject: Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe On 12/6/2012 9:00 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Stephen P. King > OK, after thinking it over, it seems there's two ways of thinking > about L&

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-08 Thread John Mikes
you seem to have no means of overall synchronizing > the actions of sets. > > > Exactly. In order to have an overall synchronization of the actions > there must be a computation of such and this is an infinite NP-hard problem > that simply cannot occur prior to the availability o

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-08 Thread Stephen P. King
tent - *From:* Stephen P. King <mailto:stephe...@charter.net> *Receiver:* everything-list <mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com> *Time:* 2012-12-06, 14:02:33 *Subject:* Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe On 12/6/2012 9:00 AM, Roger

Re: Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-08 Thread Roger Clough
llen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-06, 14:02:33 Subject: Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe On 12/6/2012 9:00 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Stephen P. King > OK, after thinking it

Re: A truce: if atheism/materialism is an "as if" universe

2012-12-06 Thread Stephen P. King
On 12/6/2012 9:00 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King OK, after thinking it over, it seems there's two ways of thinking about L's metaphysics. 1) (My way) The Idealist way, that being L's metaphysics as is. 2) (Your way) The atheist/materialist way, that being the usual atheist/materialist