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Well this is just nonsense, but it relates to the reason I didn't reply to the last post you wrote to me regarding the subject of order. It finally be...

Glad I could help. You're welcome :-)

Do you mean physical space, as in the real world? No relation at all. Dimensionless points are purely a mathematical abstraction. For example a point ...

Do you see that no matter how many times you cut an object and its subparts in half, there are always finitely many parts? And that their area always ...

When the ad hominems start I always know I'm in the presence of a superior mind. Teach me, oh wise one. Finite compared to infinite. Was the Great Pro...

Suppose I cut a circular disk (that includes the boundary and the enclosed region) in half. How many pieces do you have? 2. Finite or infinite? Finite...

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I'm not sure how you got that from anything I wrote. I pointed out that there's a one-to-one correspondence between the points of any two circles, and...

You're factually wrong. Is the set {0,1,2,3,4} identical to the set {0,1,2,3,4}? I have to assume you'd say yes. But 2 + 3 and 5 are both representati...

That's ok, maybe I'll say something on one of the political threads and then you can throw rocks :-) ps. Ball. I had to look that up, which means I'm ...

Not sure what you mean. Unless you are interpreting circle and sphere as including their enclosed regions. In math the convention is that a circle is ...

Uh yeah, me too. Take the example in two dimensions. You have two concentric circles, one with radius 1 and the other with radius 2. Surely they have ...

Nothing you said was responsive to my point. There is no difference between an eternal universe and an eternal creator that creates a short-lived univ...

We'd have every excuse. It's mortality that makes us get our butts in gear. "I'll do it next millennium."

I regularly read the math-oriented subreddits on Reddit. There's a steady stream of people trying to learn math at their own at literally every level,...

Great old Twilight Zone. Guy sells his soul to the Devil for immortality. He is allowed to live as long as he wants, and he can die and turn over his ...

On the contrary. 2 + 3 and 5 are mathematically identical. There is not the slightest question, controversy, or doubt about that. I listen very well, ...

Appreciate the reference. Not a word of this is even on topic relative to whether 2 + 3 and 5 are identical. Since mathematically they are, and as a m...

Well then why can't the world be self-existent without the need for the Great Programmer? Sorry I'm not qualified to comment on the rest of your post,...

@"Metaphysician Undercover" I just happened to run across an article in Philosophy Now called, A Justification of Empirical Thinking by Arnold Zuboff,...

Who created the Great Programmer? All creation myths that depend on an 'original intelligence" have a regress problem. And secondly, as I pointed out,...

Today I learned! Thanks for the reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enactivism

I never saw it but I remember it at the time. When I was in school they showed us some science film about sensory deprivation tanks in which people wo...

The question is, did Robert Wagner kill her?

I didn't feel like outlining the case against Darwinian evolution, which I know a little about. Was that your point? Well God could have invented evol...

I'd delegate that job to an intelligent designer!!!!

Thoughtful planning using the best available information, imperfect though it may be, would always be better than acting randomly and hoping for a fav...

But we do this every day. Perhaps I didn't understand the point. The claim was that acting randomly was better than trying to intelligently plan. I ca...

I immediately thought of MC Hammer. What does that mean? Then of course there's Hammer films, the great producer of horror movies. And Mike Hammer, th...

So nice that you picked those two, since they're diametrically opposed and clearly reveal liberal elitist hypocrisy. Every time you reduce air polluti...

Haven't followed the thread, only responding to this. But I don't agree. Say I'm a wooly mammoth and I notice the climate is getting cooler. By random...

That's funny, I thought it's the left that does that. Racists who claim to be anti-racist. Fascists who claim to be anti-fascist. Global elitists who ...

You're right, I'm wrong.

You can't render data you haven't got. You haven't demonstrated that you have all the data in the universe, or that all the data in the universe is fi...

LOL. Perhaps I'm not understanding you, because you couldn't possibly believe what you wrote. Your screen can't show data that the computer doesn't kn...

It's not possible for zoom to be arbitrarily small because your computer can't hold that much data. Try arbitrarily zooming into Google maps and you'l...

This is bad logic. What you can see on your monitor with the naked eye is not all there is. You are saying that we can see only so many different thin...

You need to look at the Wiki page I linked on the Halting problem. It's an easily stated problem that no computer can possibly solve. It was discovere...

So you agree that you can only represent computable phenomena. You can't, for example, solve the Halting problem. But it's not known whether the unive...

All of them. The detail of the universe far exceeds what you can represent. You couldn't even fully represent a grain of sand ... for the reason that ...

Your digital photo is a thing in the universe. It lives in a piece of silicon memory in a computer. We think of software as ethereal or nonphysical, b...

Itself, of course. It could not show itself in full detail.

The question of whether God is bound by the laws of physics is an old one. I found some references but these are not definitive, I just grabbed them o...

What specifically is the Busy Beaver issue? I'm not following the details. I'm sure I don't know the answer anyway. Noah's response on SE seemed compr...

I already gave you multiple pointers to articles about non well-founded sets, and I showed you how a graph with a single node and an edge from that no...

You broke my parser.

It's a syntactic issue. Proofs are syntax. Symbol manipulation. A computer can verify a proof. There's no meaning in syntax. A proof just means you ha...

The first step in counting symbols is to fix the alphabet and inference rules. What you've done is use two different symbolic systems.

I can't be certain of that. Symbol count is a sensible way to measure the length of a proof. I wasn't entirely sure what you were getting at, so I sai...

Symbol length is just one way to measure the length of a proof. It's the one the OP is interested in but it's not the only one. On the other hand from...