It is sort of like Pascal's Wager. But unlike believing in God, it costs real money out of your pocket. On the likelihood of it succeeding, using gues...
Biotech-based solutions seem to offer somewhat extended rather than indefinitely extended longevity we might get from a computer-based solution. So th...
I get the impression it is a long way off in everyday terms. We don't even understand how the neuron works. But I'd think we'd have a good shot at it ...
I am proposing a timeless, eternal, first cause because that is the only model that fits the facts. We can't have time stretching back endlessly in an...
https://simple.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/god So 'God' is capitalised when used in the singular and lower case in the plural. Nothing is prior to the first...
It's just a convention that the g in God is capitalised. I mean nothing further by it. Well the first cause argument is sound I think: Time has a star...
Well there is a tendency with traditional religion to assign unbelievable abilities to God (the 3 O's). That is not the sort of thing I am talking abo...
I think there is quite a difference between giving a probability that a creator exists and saying categorically that God exists. So I am actually agno...
From reading the description of it, I'm not convinced Baye's theorem is the calculation applicable to what I am doing. But assigning a % likelihood co...
I am not rationalising. No-one can be sure if there is a creator or not. A step removed from that is a probability analysis. This is a more refined vi...
No it is for simultaneous occurrence of two events when you multiply. I am combining evidence which is an additive process. I can if I want to perform...
Well I start at 50% probability, and then consider each piece of evidence for/against the proposition, modifying the probability for the proposition a...
I did not say a 97% chance of God. I said a 97% chance of a creator. There is a difference. The chances of that creator also complying with the tradit...
Here you would be resorting to the Weak or Strong Anthropic Principle? BTW, it is possible to estimate the chance of the existence of a 'creator of th...
Fair point, but the argument is strong enough to have one allowing for the possibility of God. So its a pretty good argument. I think really the argum...
But it's impossible for a numeric property to take on a non-numeric value; the age of the universe must be a number. We could for example have a clock...
If you agree infinity is not a number then you must also agree that properties of reality of a numeric nature (such as age of the universe) cannot tak...
The argument of the first cause follows just from cause and effect. I fail to see what is illogical about it. The argument from design holds today; th...
What is wrong with that? For example, an infinite number of particle collisions, extending into the past, can be represented by the numeric sequence: ...
I did not set out to prove the prime mover; I set out just by observing that presentism leads to an impossible infinite regress. So I just set out in ...
For any infinite regress, you can number off the events sequentially so there is no error. I think a main consequence is that there is a timeless, pri...
I think actually I have made an error with my proof that an infinite regress is impossible - sorry. Amended version below: 1. The number of events in ...
But there is an actual physical property of the system, the age of the universe, which takes a numeric value. It must have some value. That value has ...
But the events have happened, they are in the past. And I know whatever finite number I pick, it is smaller than the number of events. The only conclu...
I'm using it in the way of meaning a logical contradiction. To quote the op: So here we have something that is a number but greater than any number. T...
The only way for something to 'exist always' is for it to exist timelessly; otherwise you have an infinite regress which is impossible. Points 1-6 in ...
Yes it is. It leads to an infinite regress which is impossible, so it's incoherent. At least Eternalism is logically possible. - 'stuff either exists ...
You are trying to make an actual infinity (past eternity) into a potential infinity. That's not possible, past eternity actually happened; implying wh...
Yes, you have to come to the conclusion the age of some moments is greater than any number which is a contradiction. You cannot have past eternity wit...
I would not say I'm 100% sure of my position but there seems to be more evidence in favour of eternalism. Impacts on the human condition depend what t...
The more intense the gravity the slower times runs I should of said. There are probably questions we can't answer (maybe 'why is there something rathe...
Step 4 is just steps 2 and 3 repeated an infinite number of times. If you object to step 4, you should object to something in steps 2 and 3. I don't s...
Thats many people's gut instinct on time, 'only now exists'. My point is time is unintuitive and you actually have to work through the logic to see th...
But even an anti-realist must have an opinion on whether sensory input data from the past/future actually exists in the same sense as 'nows' sensory i...
If time is not progressing at some speed, that would seem to lead directly to eternalism? How would you then counter my argument in the OP that time h...
I guess so. A universe where 2+2!=4 is a universe with no information in it: A. 2+2=5 B. Implies 0=1 C. Implies True=False D. Implies no information A...
Logic involves information; truth values are either 1 or 0 in the case of boolean logic or somewhere in-between for fuzzy logic. The truth values from...
But the world appears to follow logical (if not intuitive) rules; hence all the progress in science has been possible. I see no reason why the start o...
But something coming from nothing, including no time? Sounds unbelievable to me. There is a strong argument for a start of time here: https://thephilo...
I don't think presentism and a start of time are compatible. What would come before and cause the start of time? There is nothing to do that, so it se...
I gave a proof: Or think of it this way. Each event in an infinite regress has a predecessor so each event makes sense on its own, but the series as a...
It is a weakness of standard eternalism that the present has no privileged status, whereas it does for us. There is also a variation, moving spotlight...
So you mean the universe has never been completely at rest? Yes I agree, an at rest universe would be a dead universe. There is the quantum eraser exp...
F=ma, e=mc^2, etc... when have we not caught the universe doing sums? It seems to follow purely mathematical rules. And thats what you'd expect; logic...
But logic predates, transcends and governs the universe, so yes, the universe has to behave logically. Any time we find absurdities (infinite regresse...
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