That the universe must be live supporting is a given; the real question is why is the universe life supporting? 1. A billion to one fluke comes of (th...
The fundamental constants could of all been very different: - The strength of the 4 forces - The masses and charges of the subatomic particles - The r...
But in this lottery there is only one participant - only one of the billion tickets was bought - as represented by our universe. So it is remarkable t...
But it is still remarkable that we won at a billion to one - there was only one lucky ticket (the one life supporting universe). Suspiciously remarkab...
What he's says there about absolute infinity not being subject to maths... if only he'd realised that was the case for infinity full stop (there is on...
Agreed. He was mad: “I have never assumed a ‘Genus Supremum’ of the actual infinite. Quite on the contrary I have rigorously proved that there can be ...
Proof infinity is not a number First, we realise if two different types of infinity existed, they would have to be larger than each other. Thats a log...
This is how I see politics (and decision making in general): Net Pleasure I use a definition of pleasure and pain includes all forms of pleasure and p...
"Stoicism is predominantly a philosophy of personal ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world. According to its teachi...
- Something cannot exist eternally in time because it would have no temporal start - Eternal existence outside of time is however possible. This argum...
Actually the set of all objectively real sets would have to be defined to exclude its own power set else we have problems. I'm not sure the set of all...
It has to be one or the other: - I think the set of all sets exists only in our minds along with all the other infinite sets. - I think the set of all...
The set of sets only exists in our imaginations. All infinite sets are purely things of the imagination. They are a mental approximation of the very l...
In set theory it is claimed that the set of all sets does not exist. 'Proof’: 1. Let S be the set of all sets, then |S| < |2^S| but 2^S is a subset of...
Not sure I understand the question. All possibilities in the lottery are a billion to one - all equally unlikely. So losing is almost 100% certain. So...
We know lotteries tend not to be rigged. We do not know if universes are 'rigged'. It could be that universes are not rigged and we just got lucky, bu...
Why does 'a set of constant values does not constitute a coincidence'? Over 20 independent physical constants had to be the way they are for life to b...
- There are conflicting measurements of the expansion rate. I do not have complete faith that the astronomers have it right - The rate of expansion ha...
Whether there is infinite anything is another question, I am personally of the opinion that there is not, but that is a digression. Occam's razor woul...
It has traction as far as I'm concerned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_timelike_curve A causal loop is possible according to general relativity...
So for example the strength gravity has to be strong enough for stars and planets to form, but not so strong that we get too fast nuclear fusion or to...
You have given no justification as to why this card trick analogy applies; the universe is not tricking use; it could very easily have come out differ...
Whatever type of universe is created, conflation of existence with delusions is likely possible. Put it this way, on God's required features list for ...
So we imagine countless billions of years throughout which the physical laws and constants are evolving. Eventually, by sheer luck, they hit a configu...
Lets take an example; the universe's expansion rate is set such that matter can still cluster into stars and planets yet it is expanding fast enough t...
Yes I do; there are about 20 constants in physics that all have to be about where they are now for life to exist. The chances of that happening by cha...
But it looks like the laws of physics and the standard model have been constant since the singularity. The Big Bang theory predicts things back to a f...
I'm not sure about a function, but the number of results that depend on a given result might be a possible metric. So at the bottom of an inverted dep...
There has to be some mechanism by which the very constants/laws of nature change - the standard model has to 'evolve' some how for example. The mechan...
I agree. I think existence has a set typed property: all material objects. We then separately have non-material objects, concepts like 'fairies and sq...
I believe the axiom of infinity does introduce inconsistencies, but that is for another post. I am a bit old fashioned; I believe an axiom needs to be...
That is the weak anthropic principle (WAP) you have given. The problem with the WAP is that it says that the universe must support life, it does not s...
In theory, if maths axioms were based solely on observation of reality, then our maths should be the same as the alien's maths. But our maths axioms a...
It's the first I'm questioning - the possibility space is boundless. I'd say the second applies - we have no evidence for parallel universes but it is...
I not sure I understand what you mean. I think 'there is no such thing as x' just applies to our observational range; our universe. So it counts as in...
If we judge what is possible just based on our experience of this universe then we miss a huge realm of possibility. How do we know that other states ...
How do I control another me in an alternative universe? Is it somehow that my decisions have an impact on the other me's behaviour? If it is not the c...
The start of time/causality is a unique event and different from everything we normally encounter. In everyday life, motors and intelligence require c...
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