Jackson

I like Sean Carroll and buy into the idea of a multiverse.

Your representation of Penrose makes sense to me. There is nothing about the BigBang that logically prevents multiple big bangs.

Makes sense to me.

You chase me around with insults. Have at it.

Also, if not the first, a substantial criticism of mechanism and Newton's concept of absolute time and space.

What is CCC?

I believe Leibniz was the first to conceive the universe as a computing machine.

The fact you chase me around making personal attacks with impunity tells me everything I need to know about you and this forum.

Nothing but constant personal attacks from you.

Constant personal attacks from you. You must be a moderator.

He died long ago.

Cool. My father went to Temple.

And Trump believes he is a nice guy.

Good, we agree. No need to debate it.

Where? Was it approved?

That answers that.

Yet you have no idea what Wittgenstein says about the transcendental in the Philosophical Investigations.

Amazing you think making a personal attack is building bridges.

Thank you for being honest.

Then tell me about Wittgenstein's discussion of the transcendental in the Philosophical Investigations.

Thanks for the personal attack. I mean, no, have some dignity.

The Tractatus uses "transcendental" twice. What most readers of W. know is that he rejects the concept in the Philosophical Investigations. You might ...

Ethics is just the idea of how we want people to act around each other. Nothing mystical or transcendental about it.

No. Transcendental means the condition for experience. A Kantian term. Clearly this is not W. meaning. But by all means, explain what W. means by "tra...

I never heard of kantian dialectics. What is that?

That is not Wittgenstein idea at all, false.

Then, "infinite" and "finite" need to be defined. Because "infinite" could express the existence of an infinite time, which is what I would reject.

Agre with that.

No, just that the universe need not have a beginning or end.

No one does.

Correct.

Now you're getting it. Someone besides you has to care.

No, that is what it is. The production of an artwork.

It's the idea made sensuous. That is what art is. Skill is the means by which something is made material.

"beauty is the Idea made real in the sensuous and actual world" Hegel, Lectures on Art. How I think of art. An idea made material.

Thanks for being forthright. I do not think most art is garbage.

That is not what he said.

Ok, well I am a painter, a visual artist--that's what I know about. Anything can be art. Now try to sell it or get a gallery to show your work. Same w...

I am. Having a hard time understanding the purpose of the thread. Everything requires skill. What is the point?

I notice you allow some people to write insults and harass others. It is one reason I don't like using this forum as much.

No.

Yes, logically.

Is there a point? I see none.

And?

You don't know.

Nothing in physics can describe what happened before the Big Bang, nor that it is a unique event.

Big bang only shows how to derive our current universe from that situation. Says nothing about what happened before.

like wow man

By you.

Agree. He is one of the reasons I lost respect for this forum.