Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

Subject: Re: Why Does Anything Exist? On Mon, Mar 15, 2021, 10:17 AM Bruno Marchal wrote: On 14 Mar 2021, at 17:26, Tomas Pales wrote:   A square circle is equal to itself, arguably. No, a square circle is a circle that is not a circle, Obviously, a square circle is a circle

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021, 10:17 AM Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 14 Mar 2021, at 17:26, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > >> A square circle is equal to itself, arguably. >> > > No, a square circle is a circle that is not a circle, > > > Obviously, a square circle is a circle. It is a counter-example to the

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On 3/17/2021 2:42 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Mar 2021, at 19:53, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: On 3/16/2021 2:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Mar 2021, at 10:23, smitra > wrote: On 14-03-2021 20:03,

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> On 16 Mar 2021, at 19:53, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 3/16/2021 2:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> On 15 Mar 2021, at 10:23, smitra wrote: >>> >>> On 14-03-2021 20:03, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List wrote: On 3/14/2021 3:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:

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On 3/16/2021 2:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Mar 2021, at 10:23, smitra wrote: On 14-03-2021 20:03, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List wrote: On 3/14/2021 3:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The laws are constructs of the human mind. [Lawrence] The expression of the laws are constructs of

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> On 15 Mar 2021, at 10:23, smitra wrote: > > On 14-03-2021 20:03, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List wrote: >> On 3/14/2021 3:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The laws are constructs of the human mind. [Lawrence] >>> The expression of the laws are constructs of the human mind, but I >>>

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no > Philip Benjamin > > everything-list@googlegroups.com On Behalf > Of Jason Resch verything List > Subject: Re: Why Does Anything Exist? On Sun, Mar 14, 2021, 5:24 AM Bruno > Marchal mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be>> wrote: > > I comment both Benjamin and Lawrence. &

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> On 14 Mar 2021, at 17:26, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 10:57:08 AM UTC+1 Bruno Marchal wrote: > > But what is an object? > > Anything that is identical to itself. It also seems necessary that every > object is part of a greater object and has properties.

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>> On Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 4:30:26 PM UTC-6 medinuclear wrote: >> [Brent Meeker] >> >> “https://alwaysasking.com/ >> <https://alwaysasking.com/>why-does-anything-exist/#A_Story_of_Creation” >> >> [Philip Benjamin] If nothing ever e

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t; <mailto:goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 4:30:26 PM UTC-6 medinuclear wrote: >> [Brent Meeker] >> >> “https://alwaysasking.com/ >> <https://alwaysasking.com/>why-does-anything-exist/#A_Story_of_Creation

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On 14-03-2021 20:03, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List wrote: On 3/14/2021 3:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The laws are constructs of the human mind. [Lawrence] The expression of the laws are constructs of the human mind, but I guess you are OK that F=GmM/r^2 was as much approximately true

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On 3/14/2021 3:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The laws are constructs of the human mind.  [Lawrence] The expression of the laws are constructs of the human mind, but I guess you are OK that F=GmM/r^2 was as much approximately true before human life appears on this planet and after. OK? I

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general_the...@googlegroups.com<mailto:general_the...@googlegroups.com> Subject: [Consciousness-Online] RE: Why Does Anything Exist? [Philip Benjamin] Laws are NOT constructs of the human mind. The 'expressions of the Laws' are indeed human constructs. F=GmM/r^2 = ma is only a

RE: Why Does Anything Exist?

producing life (consciousness) or E ternal LIFE producing both dead-matter and life (consciousness)? Philip Benjamin everything-list@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Jason Resch verything List Subject: Re: Why Does Anything Exist? On Sun, Mar 14, 2021, 5:24 AM Bruno Marchal mailto:marc

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On Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 10:57:08 AM UTC+1 Bruno Marchal wrote: > > But what is an object? > Anything that is identical to itself. It also seems necessary that every object is part of a greater object and has properties. > We cannot really invoke “reality” as its very nature is part of

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eker*] >> >> “https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/#A_Story_of_Creation” >> >> [*Philip Benjamin*] If nothing ever existed, nothing can exist today. >> “Ex nihilo, nihil fit” (Parmenides). >> > > OK. Key point. > > > > > Laws

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: > >> [*Brent Meeker*] >> >> “https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/#A_Story_of_Creation” >> >> [*Philip Benjamin*] If nothing ever existed, nothing can exist today. >> “Ex nihilo, nihil fit” (Parmenides). >> > > OK. Key point. &g

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I comment both Benjamin and Lawrence. > On 12 Mar 2021, at 16:56, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > On Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 4:30:26 PM UTC-6 medinuclear wrote: > [Brent Meeker] > > “https://alwaysasking.com/ > <https://alwaysasking.com/>why-does-anyth

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> On 12 Mar 2021, at 14:42, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Friday, March 12, 2021 at 1:30:55 PM UTC+1 Bruno Marchal wrote: > > I translate this by “an object is an element of a set together with some > structure or laws. OK? So vectors, numbers, maps, can all be seen as > (mathematical)

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On Friday, March 12, 2021 at 11:02:45 PM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > So then is it possible that there is a dog in your bathroom, at this > moment? > No. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

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On 3/12/2021 1:09 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Friday, March 12, 2021 at 1:03:38 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: On 3/11/2021 2:23 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 10:27:35 PM UTC+1 Brent wrote: On 3/11/2021 9:44 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Thursday,

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On 3/12/2021 12:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: So, the algorithm to save democracy and science would be 1) abolish the prohibition laws (or equivalently, reinstate the free-market, If you lived in Texas, you'd have a $16,000 electric bill.  :-) Brent -- You received this message because you

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 2:20 PM Telmo Menezes wrote: >>without the laws of physics a Turing machine can't exist, > > > *> The laws of physics are a human construct.* > No. Humans are a law of physics construct. > * > Mathematically different sets of laws can fit the same experimental >

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On Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 4:30:26 PM UTC-6 medinuclear wrote: > [*Brent Meeker*] > > “https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/#A_Story_of_Creation” > > [*Philip Benjamin*] If nothing ever existed, nothing can exist today. “Ex > nihilo, nihil fit” (Parmenides)

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 4:00:51 PM UTC-6 Bruce wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 6:00 AM Jason Resch wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:41 AM Lawrence Crowell >> wrote: >> >>> Nothingness is a paradoxical thing. Does nothingness exist? If so, then >>> by having existential properties it

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> On 11 Mar 2021, at 20:20, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > Am Do, 11. Mär 2021, um 18:05, schrieb John Clark: >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 8:09 AM Jason Resch > > wrote: >> >> > So if 2+2=4, then thoughts exist. >> >> But if I think 2+2 = 5 then thoughts

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On Friday, March 12, 2021 at 1:30:55 PM UTC+1 Bruno Marchal wrote: I translate this by “an object is an element of a set together with some > structure or laws. OK? So vectors, numbers, maps, can all be seen as > (mathematical) object. > Yes. (And with mechanism, we can then deduce that

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

> On 11 Mar 2021, at 19:05, John Clark wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 8:09 AM Jason Resch > wrote: > > > So if 2+2=4, then thoughts exist. > > But if I think 2+2 = 5 then thoughts still exist, That is ambiguous. Strictly speaking if 2+2=5, I am the

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

> On 11 Mar 2021, at 18:52, John Clark wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 5:56 PM Jason Resch > wrote: > > > I believe Chaitin has a definition of randomness that works for finite > > strings. If I remember correctly it has to do with the length of the > >

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

a physical reality is a result of these computations creating consciousness observers. See:  https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/#A_Story_of_Creation But you're casually confounding different sense of "exist".  Logical laws, number, etc are derivative on language.  They don'

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

> On 11 Mar 2021, at 00:52, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 12:15:43 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > > > On 3/10/2021 2:41 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:29:13 PM UTC+1 Brent wrote: >> >> >> On 3/10/2021 1:18 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: >>

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

Marchal To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, Mar 12, 2021 4:18 am Subject: Re: Why Does Anything Exist? On 11 Mar 2021, at 03:09, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Only if we could break into other worldliness does MWI seem interesting. The question is “is it true”. Truth does

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

> On 10 Mar 2021, at 23:38, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 4:12:21 PM UTC+1 Bruno Marchal wrote: >> On 10 Mar 2021, at 00:03, Tomas Pales > > wrote: >> >> The law of identity determines what can possibly exist, namely that which is >> identical to itself. But

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> On 10 Mar 2021, at 22:43, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 3/10/2021 7:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 10 Mar 2021, at 00:19, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List >>> >> > wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 3/9/2021 2:00 PM,

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> On 10 Mar 2021, at 18:29, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 3/10/2021 1:18 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:40:51 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: >> >> >> On 3/9/2021 3:52 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at

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rything-list@googlegroups.com>> >> wrote: >> >> >> On 3/9/2021 12:22 AM, Jason Resch wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:57 AM Kim Jones >> <mailto:kimjo...@ozemail.com.au>> wrote: >>> What was there

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On Friday, March 12, 2021 at 1:03:38 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > > > On 3/11/2021 2:23 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 10:27:35 PM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > >> >> >> On 3/11/2021 9:44 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 1:26:27 AM UTC+1 Bruce

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> >> On 3/9/2021 12:22 AM, Jason Resch wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:57 AM Kim Jones >> <mailto:kimjo...@ozemail.com.au>> wrote: >>> What was there before there was nothing? >>> >>> I don't believe reality wa

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t;>>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:37 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 3/9/2021 12:22 AM, Jason Resch wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12

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M, Jason Resch wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:57 AM Kim Jones >> <mailto:kimjo...@ozemail.com.au>> wrote: >>> What was there before there was nothing? >>> >>> I don't believe reality was ever a state of absolute nothing

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On 3/11/2021 2:23 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 10:27:35 PM UTC+1 Brent wrote: On 3/11/2021 9:44 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 1:26:27 AM UTC+1 Bruce wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:52 AM Tomas Pales wrote:

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 10:27:35 PM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > > > On 3/11/2021 9:44 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 1:26:27 AM UTC+1 Bruce wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:52 AM Tomas Pales wrote: >> >>> >>> If there is a contradiction in the definition of

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On 3/11/2021 9:44 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 1:26:27 AM UTC+1 Bruce wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:52 AM Tomas Pales wrote: If there is a contradiction in the definition of an object, that means that the law of identity is violated

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

Am Do, 11. Mär 2021, um 18:05, schrieb John Clark: > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 8:09 AM Jason Resch wrote: > >> *> So if 2+2=4, then thoughts exist.* > > But if I think 2+2 = 5 then thoughts still exist, Which goes to show that just by adding the two words "I think" to an interesting

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On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 2:39:11 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > > > On 3/10/2021 3:52 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 12:15:43 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > >> >> >> On 3/10/2021 2:41 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:29:13 PM UTC+1

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 8:09 AM Jason Resch wrote: *> So if 2+2=4, then thoughts exist.* > But if I think 2+2 = 5 then thoughts still exist, but without the laws of physics a Turing machine can't exist, and without a Turing Machines thoughts, even incorrect thoughts produced by faulty

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 5:56 PM Jason Resch wrote: *> I believe Chaitin has a definition of randomness that works for finite > strings. If I remember correctly it has to do with the length of the > shortest program that outputs the string being longer than the string > itself.* > Yes, but that

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On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 1:26:27 AM UTC+1 Bruce wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:52 AM Tomas Pales wrote: > >> >> If there is a contradiction in the definition of an object, that means >> that the law of identity is violated and the object is not identical to >> itself and hence is

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Hi Alastair, On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 6:47 AM wrote: > Hi Jason > > I can't think of any more fundamental question than 'why anything?'. > I agree! I think this question is key to so many other questions in life and philosophy, and sometimes in unexpected ways. For instance, as Bruno showed, it

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Hi Jason I can't think of any more fundamental question than 'why anything?'. The associated question 'why _this_ something?' can be used to skewer most attempted TOE's, but from what I understand of your approach I agree that you avoid this fate, so just on those grounds alone I think it should

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 09:00:38AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 6:00 AM Jason Resch wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:41 AM Lawrence Crowell < > goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Nothingness is a paradoxical thing. Does nothingness exist? If

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> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:57 AM Kim Jones wrote: > > What was there before there was nothing? > > > I don't believe reality was ever a state of absolute nothingness. Rather, > there are things that exist necessarily: logical laws, truth, properties of > numbers, etc. Some of these tr

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h wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:57 AM Kim Jones wrote: > > What was there before there was nothing? > > > I don't believe reality was ever a state of absolute nothingness. Rather, > there are things that exist necessarily: logical laws, truth, prop

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Without any thinking involved I would guess that the only thing that could be running is information. Info in the form of photons and electrons and the patterns we detect, if any? As Jason Resch pointed out months ago, a lot of info necessarily is hidden from us, physically. How? Jason noted

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mber relations concern and define all computational histories, and the appearance of a physical reality is a result of these computations creating consciousness observers. See:  https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/#A_Story_of_Creation But you're casually confounding diff

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f these truths and number relations concern and define all computational histories, and the appearance of a physical reality is a result of these computations creating consciousness observers. See:  https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/#A_Story_of_Creation But you're casually co

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On 3/10/2021 3:52 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 12:15:43 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: On 3/10/2021 2:41 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:29:13 PM UTC+1 Brent wrote: On 3/10/2021 1:18 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: Then you've

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On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:52 AM Tomas Pales wrote: > On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 12:15:43 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > >> On 3/10/2021 2:41 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:29:13 PM UTC+1 Brent wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 3/10/2021 1:18 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: >>> >>>

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On Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 12:15:43 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > > > On 3/10/2021 2:41 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:29:13 PM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > >> >> >> On 3/10/2021 1:18 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> Then you've either (1) changed the meaning of "real"

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Just name the string "Bob" and output Bob. Brent On 3/10/2021 2:55 PM, Jason Resch wrote: I believe Chaitin has a definition of randomness that works for finite strings. If I remember correctly it has to do with the length of the shortest program that outputs the string being longer than the

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On 3/10/2021 2:51 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 4:38 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: On 3/10/2021 9:41 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 11:29 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List

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On 3/10/2021 2:41 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:29:13 PM UTC+1 Brent wrote: On 3/10/2021 1:18 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: Then you've either (1) changed the meaning of "real" existence (2) changed the meaning of possible or (3) gone mad. As I said,

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I believe Chaitin has a definition of randomness that works for finite strings. If I remember correctly it has to do with the length of the shortest program that outputs the string being longer than the string itself. Jason On Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 3:43 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 4:38 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > On 3/10/2021 9:41 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 11:29 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 3/10/2021

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On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:29:13 PM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > > > On 3/10/2021 1:18 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: > > Then you've either (1) changed the meaning of "real" existence (2) changed > the meaning of possible or (3) gone mad. > As I said, possible means identical to itself. Now you tell

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 4:12:21 PM UTC+1 Bruno Marchal wrote: > On 10 Mar 2021, at 00:03, Tomas Pales wrote: > > The law of identity determines what can possibly exist, namely that which > is identical to itself. But what is the difference between a possibly > existing object and a

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On 3/10/2021 9:41 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 11:29 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: On 3/10/2021 1:18 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:40:51 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: On

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On 3/10/2021 7:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 Mar 2021, at 00:19, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: On 3/9/2021 2:00 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 6:00 AM Jason Resch > wrote: On

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On 10-03-2021 18:41, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 11:29 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List wrote: On 3/10/2021 1:18 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:40:51 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: On 3/9/2021 3:52 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 11:29 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > On 3/10/2021 1:18 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:40:51 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > >> >> >> On 3/9/2021 3:52 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> >> >> On

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On 3/10/2021 1:18 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:40:51 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: On 3/9/2021 3:52 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 12:29:07 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: On 3/9/2021 3:03 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: The law of

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> On 10 Mar 2021, at 10:18, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:40:51 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > > > On 3/9/2021 3:52 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 12:29:07 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: >> >> >> On 3/9/2021 3:03 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: >>>

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> On 10 Mar 2021, at 00:22, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 3/9/2021 2:30 PM, Philip Benjamin wrote: >> If nothing ever existed, nothing can exist today. “Ex nihilo, nihil fit” >> (Parmenides). > > Yeah, but what has he published recently? According to Simplicius,

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> On 10 Mar 2021, at 00:19, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 3/9/2021 2:00 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 6:00 AM Jason Resch > > wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:41 AM Lawrence Crowell >>

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't see that other world is not a proof > that it doesn't exist. OK with this. Bruno > > On Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 6:34:51 AM UTC+1 Jason wrote: > I wrote up my thoughts on the question of "Why does anything exist?" > > https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-

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:22 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Why Does Anything Exist? On 3/9/2021 2:30 PM, Philip Benjamin wrote: If nothing ever existed, nothing can exist today. “Ex nihilo, nihil fit” (Parmenides). Yeah, but what has he published recently? Brent -- You received this message

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M UTC-6 Jason wrote: > I wrote up my thoughts on the question of "Why does anything exist?" > > https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/ > <https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/> > > I thought members of the list might appreciate some of

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.com.au>> wrote: >> What was there before there was nothing? >> >> I don't believe reality was ever a state of absolute nothingness. Rather, >> there are things that exist necessarily: logical laws, truth, properties of >> numbers, etc. Some of th

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> On 10 Mar 2021, at 13:05, John Clark wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 6:45 PM spudboy100 via Everything List > mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com>> > wrote: > > > I kind of side with Canadian philosopher John Leslie, as well as British > > astronomer, James Jeans on this question.

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hingness. Rather, >> there are things that exist necessarily: logical laws, truth, properties of >> numbers, etc. Some of these truths and number relations concern and define >> all computational histories, and the appearance of a physical reality is a >> result of thes

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all computational histories, and the appearance of a physical reality is a > result of these computations creating consciousness observers. See: > https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/#A_Story_of_Creation > > > But you're casually confounding different sense of "exist".

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On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 6:45 PM spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> I kind of side with Canadian philosopher John Leslie, as well as British > astronomer, James Jeans on this question. Both Leslie and Jeans see the > cosmos as a Great Thought. I formalize

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On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:40:51 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > > > On 3/9/2021 3:52 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 12:29:07 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > >> >> >> On 3/9/2021 3:03 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> The law of identity determines what can possibly exist,

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On 3/9/2021 3:52 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 12:29:07 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: On 3/9/2021 3:03 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: The law of identity determines what can possibly exist, namely that which is identical to itself. But what is the difference

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On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 12:29:07 AM UTC+1 Brent wrote: > > > On 3/9/2021 3:03 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: > > The law of identity determines what can possibly exist, namely that which > is identical to itself. But what is the difference between a possibly > existing object and a "really"

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observers. See:  https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/#A_Story_of_Creation But you're casually confounding different sense of "exist".  Logical laws, number, etc are derivative on language.  They don't "exist" physically.  The logicians meaning of exis

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On 3/9/2021 3:03 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: The law of identity determines what can possibly exist, namely that which is identical to itself. But what is the difference between a possibly existing object and a "really" existing object? I see no difference, and hence all possible objects exist,

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On 3/9/2021 2:55 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 9:46 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: On 3/9/2021 1:20 PM, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 1:57 AM Kim Jones mailto:kimjo...@ozemail.com.au>> wrote:

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On 3/9/2021 2:30 PM, Philip Benjamin wrote: If nothing ever existed, nothing can exist today. “Ex nihilo, nihil fit” (Parmenides). Yeah, but what has he published recently? Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To

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On 3/9/2021 2:00 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 6:00 AM Jason Resch > wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:41 AM Lawrence Crowell mailto:goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com>> wrote: Nothingness is a paradoxical thing. Does nothingness

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nd the fact that you can't see that other world is not a proof that it doesn't exist. On Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 6:34:51 AM UTC+1 Jason wrote: > I wrote up my thoughts on the question of "Why does anything exist?" > > https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/ > > I

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 9:46 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > On 3/9/2021 1:20 PM, John Clark wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 1:57 AM Kim Jones wrote: > > *> What was there before there was nothing?* >> > > "Before" implies time and time

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On 3/9/2021 1:20 PM, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 1:57 AM Kim Jones > wrote: /> What was there before there was nothing?/ "Before" implies time and time implies change; if nothing exists then nothing can change, and if nothing can change time

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is not the only property of the strings, so they are not equivalent to 'nothing'. Applying information theory outside of its intended domain can lead to all sorts of confusion.. Bruce but I think my section on the Library of Babel is illustrative: > https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anyth

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[Brent Meeker] "https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/#A_Story_of_Creation; [Philip Benjamin] If nothing ever existed, nothing can exist today. "Ex nihilo, nihil fit" (Parmenides). Laws of any kind necessarily requires the existence of a conscious Law Giver. The l

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ormation theory. I grant that the equivalence between all strings and no strings is unintuitive, but I think my section on the Library of Babel is illustrative: https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/#The_Library_of_Babel Jason > > This is the main subject of Russell Standish's book: The

Re: Why Does Anything Exist?

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 6:00 AM Jason Resch wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:41 AM Lawrence Crowell < > goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Nothingness is a paradoxical thing. Does nothingness exist? If so, then >> by having existential properties it is not pure nothingness. If

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On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 2:00 PM Jason Resch wrote: *> There is a strange and paradoxical sort of identity between nothing and > everything,* > I agree. Meaning needs contrast, so a universe where everything has the flogknee property would be indistinguishable from a universe where nothing has

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On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 1:57 AM Kim Jones wrote: *> What was there before there was nothing?* > "Before" implies time and time implies change; if nothing exists then nothing can change, and if nothing can change time can not exist, and if time can't exist then there is no "before". John K

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s, and the appearance of a physical reality is a > result of these computations creating consciousness observers. See: > https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/#A_Story_of_Creation > > > But you're casually confounding different sense of "exist". Logical laws, > number, et

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