I find it hard to accept that, whilst I sit here typing, my fingers are passing through an actual infinity of positions. If one rejects infinity in th...
If we consider the particles within space, then it has a position - which can be regarded as information. A particle in a continuum has infinite decim...
If space was continuous, that would lead to a light year of space having the same informational content as a millimetre of space. That's absurd, hence...
A dimension could be finite also - the dimensions on a fixed solid like a rectangle or torus are finite - and the universe may have a definite shape (...
Thanls Athena! I should of probably linked to a picture, here is one: https://steemitimages.com/DQmct5dDSdsJjRowFkVZTng5ixh8ogirTUHxFg4389pNBna/image....
Time seems to be more than just a concept of the human imagination - it is something concrete and real (see SR/GR) - and something concrete without a ...
You are not coming over as snarky - getting to the truth of the matter is what's important. If this continues to be the case, then it seems to fall to...
Agreed. The percentage of our knowledge that is sound/stable increases with time. But I don't quite think that percentage is currently high enough to ...
There is the zero energy universe hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_universe So the energy/matter would be created in the initial ...
I should probably have said 'the matter that constitutes the universe exists within time'. Matter can't exist forever within time and with no matter t...
You have my argument slightly wrong, it is: - Everything in time has a cause - Therefore there must be a timeless first cause The universe exists in t...
If the first cause is timeless then it is beyond cause and effect. This seems the only possible explanation for the origin of everything - there must ...
The whole point of my argument was to show that causes require prior causes, without a first cause there can be nothing and that infinite causal regre...
This does not agree with my personal experience. Add a new person to a subject matter group - they may not be fully unto speed - sure they will make a...
It was the wrong theory - and if it had been blindly accepted without questioning, we could still have it today. Critical thinking is a skill to be en...
You think we have it all perfect and that list of superseded theories will not grow? You are mistaken - science is a history of 2 steps forward, 1 ste...
I am not sure what bearing the discrete/continuous nature of the universe has on the need for a prime mover, in either case there is motion and perpet...
A sizeable portion of what science and mathematics 'know' today will turn out - in the fullness of time - to be wrong. See, for example, Phlogiston th...
There is a great deal of empirical evidence that the speed of light is a universal constant obeyed by everything in the universe; we have been measuri...
I was not aware of this - I stand corrected. However, I think it is probably a transitory evolutionary phase that we are going through and genetic eng...
I have already given you several logical arguments. To reference the last I gave, your ‘belief’ in the possibility of an infinite regress of causes is...
Discussed here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/360708 I'm not sure what to say - I've explained it as clearly as possible - includi...
Random genetic mutations, the mechanism of evolution, take place during reproduction. Beings however have to survive to the point where they breed. So...
We have no examples of infinite causal regresses from nature we can examine, so let's examine a finite causal regress. So for example, a car: the driv...
Yet there is a universal speed limit - the speed of light - and speed = distance / time, so it appears that something / some mechanism within the univ...
"For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm" - Psalm 33:9 But the first cause has to be causally efficacious in our material wor...
You will no doubt recall that the Buddha willingly abandoned a life of luxury and subjected himself to an extreme of asceticism under the bodhi tree. ...
The Buddha said: "Let go of the past, let go of the future, let go of the present, and cross over to the farther shore of existence. With mind wholly ...
If a category on the left-side menu called 'the trashcan' or some such was introduced, we would be able to peruse offending OPs and make our own minds...
Because it would have no start / no initial state and therefore no subsequent states so could not exist. Also, you might consider the arguments agains...
How can the universe not be a state? All the particles involved always have well defined positions and velocities. This constitutes a state and that s...
A clock that has 'always' existed has can only have an UNDEFINED time at present - it never started ticking and so for example, UNDEFINED + 24 = UNDEF...
How can you contend that the universe / any system / a process does not have states? If a system has no states, it would not exist as a system - it wo...
Just because you can imagine something, does not mean it could have physical existence. I can imagine a square circle but it cannot exist. Likewise an...
My proposal in the OP almost guarantees a painless death. I acknowledge that if you throw yourself off a high building and are lucky/skilful enough to...
I am afraid I am not a physicist, but I will try to explain the bits I understand. Please forgive me if there are any mistakes... it is not my field. ...
An infinite regress of causes has no first or ultimate cause, so it's a simple matter of induction to show that the whole of such sequence cannot exis...
The clock never started keeping time so it can show no time currently - so an eternal clock is impossible - not only did it never start keeping time, ...
It says 5 minutes in the link I provided but it does not say how high a building they were considering. I'd really rather not speculate too much on th...
Well most forms of comedy are based on doing something wrong. Clown A kicks clown B in the bum etc... Or impressionist / modern art is strictly speaki...
Falsehoods are often of value from an artistic or comedic aspect. They can also generate other ideas that are not false and turn out to be useful. The...
Why are you more scared of (potential) oblivion than pain? The first does not hurt, the 2nd does. Falling from a height to death is a somewhat painful...
I think the fear of the pain of death is greater than the fear of death itself. If the first could be alleviated through regular dosages pain killers ...
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