universeness

Google reported the meaning as: a fallacy in which a conclusion is taken for granted in the premises; begging the question. I don't think this describ...

Your welcome. The only frustration I experienced during our exchange on this thread, is one that I am very familiar with and fully expect and accept. ...

I hope that your first quote above bears some useful fruit for both of us, as we both continue to seek truth. I think I have faced your arguments head...

There as always been enough food to feed everyone on the planet, every day. It's the distribution system that's flawed. Globally, it has been estimate...

Thanks for positing those links. Reading the scientific american article, was very interesting. The 'algebra' involved in the Alice and Bob example us...

Does confusion not also excite you Mr Smith? It means your quest for truth continues. I still love that quest and it adds greatly to my sense of perso...

I think we are probably imagining the same thing. Obviously, your instruction above would be in an HLL or high level language that would require trans...

At least you are consistent in your imagery of pessimism and dystopia for future humans. I am glad that I don't have to deal with such a burdensome, p...

No, divine hiddenness as described by such as the Stanford encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Seeing things differently is not the problem. Correctly Identifying and stopping the nefarious is the imperative and what really matters, is if your '...

:up: I think your pandeus is also relevant here.

I agree, and I think it's those who have fought tooth and nail to pursue truth and those who demonstrate, almost every day, how kind people can be. Es...

Fair enough Mr Smith, an honest response.

I agree with your first sentence. Yes and yes. You can if you want to and you must want to as you just typed the question. I agree that absence of evi...

Sorry guys, I can't resist this 'butt-in,' to your exchange. Why can't god/the universe/and everything not just 'butt-in' to your exchange and settle ...

You keep struggling against the ropes you tied around your own wrists. YOU compared YOUR enformer to a deity, by typing, that it was compatible with d...

No offense Mr Smith but that's a rather meaningless response. I can only assume that your need for a benevolent supernatural to exist, is more powerfu...

How much credence do you assign to the proposal that such an 'origin' has to be a mind with intent? Why can your origin not be a mindless spark? which...

Which proposal in string theory suggests a first cause mind with intent, as the creator or divine spark for our universe?

What alternative do you currently assign a higher credence level to and why?

I focus more on the credence level, I assign to the arguments Matt makes, rather than his influences or his self-assuredness. I am not saying these is...

You might like this presentation by Matt Dillahunty on belief vs knowledge: https://youtu.be/hDr6DCSi7tY

Yep, I find that my atheism often reaches an ignostic/igtheism level, when I have to listen to the latest creationist attempt to defibrillate god posi...

Not at all! quantum physics is wonderful and inspiring and awesome. The universe is even more interesting than I thought it was. Lazy god posits are s...

From wiki: Ignosticism or igtheism is the idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because the word "God" has no coherent and una...

You are just trying to play switcheroo, by basically responding to me with 'no YOU are,' suggestions. That just reduces our exchange to a panto style ...

Just interested on your attraction to the labels agnostic atheist, as an accurate combination, for you Tom. Why are you not more attracted to Ignostic...

You will not be surprised to read that I think atheism is more plausible, than any of the other flavours of theism you cite.

I agree, I think that would be an unfair assumption. He may just be very passionate, regarding his need for an omnipotent mind to exist. Regardless of...

Plant you flag accordingly sir! That's why YOUR intent and YOUR decisions matter more than any gods or enformer. The burden lies with Gnomon and god a...

I think it is theism/deism in disguise. He himself, has compared his enformationism to deism and has declared them compatible. He posts about a first ...

Turkey issues arrest warrants.

No, I assign some credence to concepts such as CCC or Mtheory etc. More credence that I have for your gap god 'enformer.' I am also content with my 'I...

Not at all. I remain full of personal wonder and awe regarding life, the universe and everything. I have defeated any woo woo thinking based on person...

This really is an obvious attempt to camouflage or 'dampen down,' the credence level you obviously assign to 'god of the gaps posits' or a first cause...

I do mean that. A quark may be a vibrating string state, for example, in common with all field excitations. A 'string state' may be physically represe...

I don't fully agree with your assessment of what the term 'data redundancy' encompasses in the field of computing science, but it's a minor difference...

My answer was those who contributed most, would naturally be most revered. Rewards such as fandom, do not justify such imbalanced outcomes, as becomin...

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I have probably watched the same interview, and all other offerings, which involves Roger on YouTube. You will not be surprised that my interpretation...

I think that's because most of them were too scared not to. I suspect many many many were actually atheists, but religion was so successful as a weapo...

You try to jump a massive chasm here. Human intention IS the ORIGIN point of anything that can be labelled as capable of 'intelligent design.' Any sug...

Sometimes your actions as a humanitarian, seem to clash with your somewhat pessimistic viewpoints of what it is to be a human being. You regularly sta...

:clap: Yes, I think all such 'theistic apologetic style,' rumination, leads inevitably back to an 'of the gaps,' supernatural first cause, and for me,...

Well, I think @"180 proof" was just typing about the fact that all current religions, fall very short in offering a credible deity, that could be the ...

Yep, the only use of the god label for me (and it remains a very weak tether), is as a 'notion' of omniscience, to asymptotically aspire to. I assume ...

Any scientist is completely free to as such questions. Many scientists (too many imo.) remain theists. Yes but I think there will be a big difference ...

Well ,let's be careful in the terms we employ here. I am not suggesting a NATURAL evolutionary emergence of a tech singularity (or significantly pivot...

In what way are natural processes such as sand production, falling rain, falling snow, seed production etc, etc, analogue? I broadly agree but I am mo...

Kitsch was utterly destroyed in a recent earthquake, caused by a pub bore, throwing one of Hanover's freshly made scones on the pub floor, after licki...