To exist permanently, the only option is to exist outside time - if you exist inside time 'forever' then you have no temporal start, no coming into be...
My favourite model of the universe is a torus in 4d spacetime with the time dimension running around the outside of the torus. The torus would be thin...
It's not if you think in 4d spacetime terms; then eternal objects have finite dimensions in space and time. So in 4d spacetime, we for example look li...
I am mainly eternalist and finitist so I think time may have an end. The infinity paradoxes tend to be related to trying to measure the unmeasurable. ...
Infinity is not a number/quantity: 1. Basic arithmetic says infinity is not a quantity. If it were a quantity, it would be a quantity X greater than a...
I still maintain that infinity is unmeasurable so has no size - that is the real cause of most of the paradoxes of infinity. OK fair point, but my mea...
It does not matter too much what the pre BB universe is like; as long as it follows cause and effect, we can reason about it at a high level without k...
We were discussing the axiom of cause and effect. The connection between the two was inductive evidence: 1. The way we assess the danger of an airplan...
There are aliens they just don't visit earth very much or at all. It's a long way to come, +4 light years. What could the start of the universe be if ...
Modern physics respects the conservation of energy - virtual particles only only transitory effects - if that was not the case, matter density would b...
There is something prior to it; a timeless first cause. There are many arguments for this. A classic from Aquinas is: 1. Can’t get something from noth...
His theory has time as an imaginary variable I think? It sounds a little far fetched, that would make the universe in effect 5D? And I believe even wi...
I'm not sure what you mean? Two googolplex of stones can exist IMO. My view is that paradoxes indicates that there is an error in the explicit/implici...
The axiom of cause and effect is just an axiom. Proofs built upon it stand or fall depending on whether the axiom is correct or not. This is the way w...
Axioms are commonly evaluated by two criteria: First, the axiom should not lead to logical inconsistencies in the system under question. I think the d...
We assume that cause and effect hold to get our everyday lives done. I assume that typing this will show up on my screen for example. Our devices use ...
I don't believe you can use bijection with infinite sets - infinite sets are by definition not fully defined; IE they are UNDEFINED and you cannot ope...
But 15,000,000 observations of cause and effect and no observations of non caused effects is quite a bit of evidence in support of 'cause and effect i...
We are in the modern day, awash with complexity. Maths and science are layer upon layer of complexity. Some of the foundations are wrong; that is wher...
But if you start with clean ideas (non contradictory axioms) you get clean theories. Set theory is all the fudges and hacks because the axiom of infin...
I'd associate size with something measurable. If its unmeasurable, I would not try to measure it. Unmeasurable things can have no size. Infinite sets ...
OK I estimate I witness 30 instances of cause an effect a minute, so that's 43200 in a day, 15,379,200 in a year versus no examples of causeless effec...
I am a traditionalist when it comes to axioms. They have to be good axioms - in agreement with our everyday experience and science - I only adopt them...
I am not sure. Concepts maybe only could be have said to have existence in the mind but the 'template' for the concept is always the same. There are o...
Concepts are not material so they don't exist in spacetime. I am not sure it can even be said of concepts that they 'exist' - there is the theory of f...
God's mind precedes the creation of spacetime I would say. But maths predates that. Maths reduces to Logic. What is logic? Just information (trues and...
The concept of a circle for example; is independent of any particular mind so it must have existence outside of all minds. Concepts like circles (and ...
Those are for the aliens to live on. Explain how autonomous movement is possible without intelligence then? You are on a philosophy forum. Metaphysics...
Timeless Just As St Thomas Aquinas claimed, the first cause must be timeless. Powerful But Not Omnipotent Creation of the universe requires considerab...
The earth's mass causes the moon's motion. The universe is fine-tuned for life. This seems to also requires intelligence. Also, the prime mover argume...
A reasonable, working definition of infinity: ‘A number bigger than any other number’ It is clear then that there can only be one such number - if the...
I think the first cause, in order to be a cause of all else, has to have some form of internal drive. This must be intelligence. Why don't you care ab...
With the limited definition of God as the creator of the universe, it is a perfect 50%/50% question. Many atheists refuse to acknowledge this. My feel...
Not sure I entirely follow, I think eternalism maybe correct (past, present, future all exist). 'Now' cannot exist eternally - if it did, the things w...
When adding relativity into the mix, it becomes more complicated. It is the order of the events is dependant on observers speed, that can change. Rela...
Nicely put. An infinite causal chain is provably impossible. To illustrate this with an example, imagine a pool table: - The cue hits the white ball. ...
EnPassant, mathematics predates the mind, the universe and God. It must do, maths is logic and logic is not something you create, you are born with it...
We don't actually need to know what time is in order to work out it has a start, but I think we can say time is a degree of freedom like space; we are...
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