Rép : The Meaning of Life

2007-01-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
To avoid to much posts in your mail box, I send all my comments in this post, Hi Brent, 1a) Brent meeker wrote (quoting Jim Heldberg) : Atheism is not a religion, just as a vacant lot is not a type of building, and health is not a form of sickness. Atheism is not a religion. --- Jim

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-01-17 Thread John M
Dear Bruno, may I ask you to spell out your "B" and "D"? in your: Let D = the proposition "God exists", "~" = NOT, B = believes.< Where I think I cannot substitute your "~" for the "=NOT" - or, if the entire line is meaning ONE idea, that "B" believes both the affirmative and the negatory. Al

Re: Hello all - My Theory of Everything

2007-01-17 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 03:41:31PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > Le 13-déc.-06, à 02:45, Russell Standish a écrit : > > > Essentially that is the Occam razor theorem. Simpler universes have > > higher probability. > > > In the ASSA(*) realm I can give sense to this. I think Hal Finney and

RE: Rép : The Meaning of Life

2007-01-17 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno Marchal writes: [SP] It's difficult to find the right words here. I think we can all agree on the appearance of a physical reality as a starting point. Yes. [SP] The common sense view is that there is an underlying primitive physical reality generating this appearance, without w

Re: Rép : The Meaning of Life

2007-01-17 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: To avoid to much posts in your mail box, I send all my comments in this post, Hi Brent, 1a) Brent meeker wrote (quoting Jim Heldberg) : Atheism is not a religion, just as a vacant lot is not a type of building, and health is not a form of sickness. Atheism is not

ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-01-17 Thread Jason
The Absolute Self-Sampling Assumption (ASSA) holds that some existances are more probable than others and therefore have a greater "measure". The consequence being that it is probable our perspectives and the universe around us are common, likely, and exist with a high level of duplication. I be