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But I just showed that infinity is not a number. It definitely does not play by logical rules (see Hilbert's Hotel and all the other paradoxes of infi...
December 27, 2018 at 20:11
We can agree on this point I think: a timeless unmoved mover is a possibility. But my axiom 'events are caused by events' rules out an unmoved mover i...
December 27, 2018 at 20:08
Well I admit that is a problem with the spacetime/eternalist model. Seems to be something different about 'now' compared to 'past' and 'future' else w...
December 27, 2018 at 20:05
No because these are the same points. A circle only has one set of points. Try not to think of time as flowing... think of it as like a spacial dimens...
December 27, 2018 at 19:39
Any point on a circle has a prior point/event.
December 27, 2018 at 18:53
No I mean some things can exist in our mind and not in reality or mathematics. Illogical things like inanimate objects that talk. Or infinity. Or a tr...
December 27, 2018 at 18:34
I think cause and effect only applying to things in time makes sense. Without time there is no before or after. Maybe there is another dimension of ti...
December 27, 2018 at 18:27
Continua are real in our minds only. Along with infinity and talking trees. Anything is real in our mind; maths and reality are very different in my v...
December 27, 2018 at 18:13
But we have larges amounts of evidence supporting the statement 'reality is modelled by maths'. If sound maths cannot represent a continuum, then that...
December 27, 2018 at 17:53
Well we have the Big Bang - which is one half of the story. What we really need is more evidence for the Big Crunch - the other half of the cyclical t...
December 27, 2018 at 17:48
I agree. And infinitesimals are just 1/?. And actual infinity is not a number: 1. If actual infinity is a number, there must be a number larger than a...
December 27, 2018 at 17:36
Potentially infinitely many times would be nice. Believe is too strong a word. Hope is more appropriate at this stage. Science needs to provide more e...
December 27, 2018 at 17:14
No random variation in my view. No stochastic processes. Its all cause and effect. So I view it like Laplace: "We may regard the present state of the ...
December 27, 2018 at 16:46
I think we are just computers. We have inputs and outputs. All of our outputs are eventually but fully determined by our inputs. It's just our incredi...
December 27, 2018 at 16:18
I think once we let go of causation, we enter the world of magic, inhabited by other ghostly concepts like infinity and eternity. I very much believe ...
December 27, 2018 at 15:46
Cause and effect I think is a sound axiom from the standpoint of everyday experience. Yes that is induction but its 100% accurate so far that I have o...
December 27, 2018 at 15:15
There are a finite number of total events on a circle of time: say a circle with 4 events A,B,C,D. Event A you could say 'occurs again', but it's the ...
December 27, 2018 at 13:24
Actually I think there is a cleaner way to demonstrate an infinite regress is impossible: 1. The number of events in an infinite regress is > any numb...
December 27, 2018 at 12:08
Put it this way, would you exist if you were not born? Time is a series: A->B->C. For the whole series to be real, it has to have a first member. So a...
December 27, 2018 at 10:08
Sorry that last argument I tried was not right. An event is defined by all events that caused it (so if A->B and B->C then A,B->C). So with an infinit...
December 26, 2018 at 12:56
If each event occurred a finite time ago, before each event, there must be an actually infinite number of other events. So there must be an event that...
December 25, 2018 at 15:16
How about cannot treat infinity as a quantity because it is not a quantity?
December 24, 2018 at 16:08
I don't know. Nonsense as far as I can tell but thats because infinity is nonsense. I'm trying to present an argument based on the rules of infinity a...
December 24, 2018 at 16:05
I would argue that length is a concept and concepts can exist in our minds only. Maybe I should have said: 'things need a non-zero length to exist in ...
December 24, 2018 at 15:30
Why is my first statement false? ? = ? * 100 So an infinite interval is composed of infinity many finite intervals (of 100 length in this case).
December 24, 2018 at 15:01
1. Can't get something from (the philosopher's) nothing 2. So something must have permanent existence 3. Time is finite * 4. So something must have pe...
December 24, 2018 at 13:48
Bijection gives non-sensical answers: it says there are the same amount of even integers as there are integers. But any finite interval; there are twi...
December 24, 2018 at 13:45
How about this one: 1. Assume an infinite regress of time ordered events 2. So some events must have taken place infinity long ago * 3. These events m...
December 24, 2018 at 13:29
The dictionary gives two definitions of eternal: - eternal inside time. This is presentism. Requires actual infinity to exist. - eternal outside time....
December 23, 2018 at 17:11
I am not suggesting breaking the chain. It is just a fundamental characteristic of a chain that it has a start. All chains have starts. I suggesting i...
December 23, 2018 at 17:05
With eternalism, past present and future all exist eternally with no need for creation or destruction, so space-time can exist eternally even though t...
December 23, 2018 at 16:48
Mathematical infinity in set theory is actual infinity. Mathematical infinity in calculus is potential infinity. ?
December 23, 2018 at 16:41
I agree: the existing prime mover arguments apply cause and effect in an inconsistent manner; cause and effect are applied for everything accept God. ...
December 23, 2018 at 16:31
There are less squares than numbers in the following intervals: 0-10 0-1000 0-1000000 So via extrapolation, there must be less squares than numbers in...
December 23, 2018 at 16:19
So how could he exist if he was not born? An unborn being would not exist. Arguments for First Mover are inconsistent: They say effects do not have a ...
December 23, 2018 at 16:13
But we need to consider a chain without a first cause, so removing a cause is a way to do this. All real chains of cause and effect have a starting ca...
December 23, 2018 at 15:44
A sequence of cause and effect: A->B->C (A causes B causes C) If I remove A, then B and C does not happen. Can't you see an infinite sequence has no s...
December 23, 2018 at 15:12
He is right. We talk about the magic of infinity and thats just it; its magic not maths. Galileo's paradox I've already mentioned but its pretty centr...
December 23, 2018 at 14:54
No I have not conceded. The sequence as a whole has no start so none of it can exist. Maybe this paradox will help you see the problem with infinity/e...
December 23, 2018 at 14:41
A start of time rules out presentist models of time; it does not rule out eternalist models.
December 23, 2018 at 14:31
With an infinite regress there is no first cause. If you remove the first cause from any chain of cause and effect, then the rest of the chain ceases ...
December 23, 2018 at 14:20
Sorry the predecessors argument I was using is not right. What I should have said is if the sequence of cause and effect goes back infinitely, it cann...
December 23, 2018 at 14:06
You are claiming: - Twice as many integers as even numbers within a finite interval - An equal amount of integers and even numbers in an infinite inte...
December 22, 2018 at 21:21
But that should be a potential infinity rather than an actual infinity... maybe... it's sort of hard to talk about outside of time. If there is a memb...
December 22, 2018 at 21:09
The 'current time pointer' loops around and resets itself at t=0. So infinity is never encountered; the pointer reaches the end of time and resets; no...
December 22, 2018 at 19:53
Twice as many integers as even numbers makes sense. We can count them: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ... Vs 2, 4, 6, ... Appears to be twice as many integers by c...
December 22, 2018 at 17:43
A simplified version of my argument: P1 The universe is everything P2 Cause and effect apply C1 The universe was caused by the universe (IE time is ci...
December 22, 2018 at 17:06
The interval 4 is twice the length of 2 so it should contain twice as many real numbers. In our minds both intervals contain an equal and infinite num...
December 22, 2018 at 13:15
On a circle of cause and effect you do not need a first cause. All causes are also effects. You can choose a first cause but its arbitrary. I chose th...
December 22, 2018 at 13:05
Cause and effect is the axiom I'm using (or more 'specifically all effects have causes' and 'all causes are effects'. It might be wrong, but I think i...
December 22, 2018 at 12:47