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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
But we have larges amounts of evidence supporting the statement 'reality is modelled by maths'. If sound maths cannot represent a continuum, then that...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
The dictionary gives two definitions of eternal: - eternal inside time. This is presentism. Requires actual infinity to exist. - eternal outside time....
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...
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...
I agree: the existing prime mover arguments apply cause and effect in an inconsistent manner; cause and effect are applied for everything accept God. ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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