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Why isn't religious talk about religion?

I never heard of that. Why do you believe philosophy is for talking about religion? Isn't religion for talking about religion?

Me as well. I never understood why a Jewish religion 2000 years ago is supposed to speak to me.

Well said. Fully agree. Myth of the atomic object.

What does "presented to the electorate" mean?

ok

I ignore posts with wiki.

don't care about wiki

When quoting, please cite the source.

I do not think the universe is a simulation. But I do think it is a kind of computing system.

Then insults everyone.

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

So you think the US is committing genocide. Odd.

So, abortion and heat death. Nothing about violent coups.

Is abortion the only thing that matters to you?

It's the concept of a series or algorithm where it is supposed to continue on to infinity and retain the same outcomes. People now see that is false a...

Indeed. Trump is always more horrible than we can imagine.

From Seth Lloyd, a few years ago: "the only way to figure out what's going to happen in a computing system is to go through the computation." https://...

Yes. Empirical.

Necessity is the way scientists in the classical, deterministic model explained events. In the 1900's the quantum model disputed necessity and replace...

I don't think anything about the universe is necessary. Necessity is just a condition. There is nothing necessary about life on planet earth. Just a c...

No, just a condition. There may be many conditions.

Bye.

I think Artificial Intelligence is another stage in the evolution of the universe. Humans may be edged out by AI 'persons.'

Yes.

It did not always exist. Why did it not come into existence before or after it did?

They wanted a violent overthrow of the government.

Yes, our galaxy was not inevitable.

You can say the universe started as Big Bang. There was nothing inevitable about our galaxy being formed, much less life on our planet. So, the state ...

A finite set of elements can still have randomness in it.

On this example, we know a person will die. When, by what cause, is not known--the randomness. Someone could have cancer and get hit by a car and die....

I am fine with a short life. But I get the idea. Some think death is an illness to be cured.

By inevitable I mean very likely to happen, a tendency. I am not denying the utility of the concept of necessity, but I think it is often misused. For...

Agree.

Death is inevitable. So, I suppose I would agree with that.

Not negated, conditioned.

Not sure the logic here. I see nothing meaningful in questioning whether I have freedom to choose. I can't choose to fly off a mountain top, for examp...

That is my view. I think it the view of quantum mechanics.

The universe does not make life necessary or it would be everywhere. Thus, random.

I have no idea what that means.

I find the dichotomy of free will/determinism to be false.

It does not matter to me one way or the other. I make my decisions without reference to free will or determinism.

By random I mean the absence of necessity. So the first state of the Big Bang is there, but we see no necessity for it being so. Nor is life necessary...

How is free will illogical? You would have to show the concept is inconsistent with itself.

Newton said God made physical laws.

I brought it up.

Only if one lies about abortion being murder.

Yes. The free will/determinism argument is pointless. I can say I have freedom, but my freedom is limited by many things. My point is that determinism...

Right. If determinism can show that a statement and its contradiction are both true, then it is useless as an explanation.

Let us say I want to get a job at a particular company. I write up a resume and contact people there. Whether I get the job or not, both cases support...