I wondered if the OP is still around, could he describe his perfect universe? I guess its inline with Pascal's Wager. God may exist so prayer is a wor...
The traditional notion of God is absurd. I wonder why we spend so long discussing the traditional notion of God as defined in ancient religious texts....
The expansion rate of the universe has slowed in the past (end of inflation), it could slow again and maybe reverse. I think the astronomers are not t...
But the Big Rip does not explain the Big Bang in a neat and tidy way like the Big Crunch does. Plus if you consider it from a metaphysical angle, each...
Would you have God sharing our time dimension or does he have his own time dimension? Or if you have God as timeless, how does he manage to change thi...
We know if we make small changes to the standard model and a number of other parameters that life is no longer possible. These are the alternative uni...
How can we escape this debate though? Our prime directive is survival and that directive extends beyond the grave and into the realm of a potential Go...
Maybe a slightly different analogy: Assume there are a billion possible pot designs, only one of which had no holes. Then we find the only pot that ex...
Good point. Surely the worst religious experience ever! Listen to Dawkins and Die. I'm amazed its so popular when there are scientific alternatives to...
I hope that is the case, but the existence of God should be inducible to a high degree and many people have trouble with the concept of faith and pref...
In pot terms: - It is not surprising that water is found in a pot with no hole - But it is still surprising that the pot has no hole (when most pots h...
Of course it surprising that we have a pot with no hole; most pots have holes. We still have to ask why does the pot have no hole? We know it must hav...
But if you were to pick a pot at random, you would likely get a pot with a hole. So you have to ask why you were so lucky to get the pot without a hol...
So I think that a computer could be designed so that it suffers when it's injured. Obviously it's a long way off in technology terms but give a comput...
1. If universes are generated via different mechanisms using different matter then they should come out different. So this applies when considering th...
Science has managed to synthesise DNA in the lab and replace the DNA of single celled animals with the synthetic DNA to produce a new type of single c...
I am trying to make two separate points here: 1. Hypothetical universes (generated by different mechanisms) that we can imagine in our mind nearly all...
Interesting answer, can you expand? I think God is needed to explain the state of the universe but I have difficulties fitting him into any viable mod...
I think it depends if you are a finitist or not. I am so I believe there cannot have been an infinite number of big bang/big crunch pairs in the past ...
If you think about hypothetical universes - all the possible universes we could of ended up with, nearly all universes would lack cohesion; IE atoms a...
The only realistic alternative is the panspermia hypotheses? And with that life still came from inanimate matter. Even if we were designed, we are sti...
Interesting to see how far we are away from achieving machine intelligence. It apparently takes 28 computers 10 hours to simulate a single cell divisi...
I agree that AI today is mostly faux intelligence but that's just because AI is at a very primitive stage of development. Nature has made intelligent ...
Well I read it but it sounds like another atheist pipe dream attempt to explain fine-tuning: Black holes typically have a mass of a few solar masses o...
No I am not. I am not saying the universe is definitely fine-tuned for live; I'm saying it appears fine-tuned for life and any scientific explanation ...
I don't see why an entropic entity cannot display intelligence? For example, a software neural net is trained and learns a specific task. Software pro...
The chances that a universe, picked at random, would be life supporting are very slim. So many things about our universe are 'just right' that it requ...
If time is circular, then travelling forward in time would eventually lead to retro-time travel. But circular time probably requires a big crunch to p...
The weak anthropic principle explains that the universe must be fined tuned for life; it does not explain why the universe is fined-tuned for life. Th...
The theories we have on the origin of the universe are more complex because they deliberately exclude the possibility of God. The fact that the univer...
Maybe we will need cybernetically enhanced brains just to understand and operate with future generations of computers; they should outperform biologic...
Humans don't grow new organs dynamically; all we do is maintain and grow the size of existing organs and bodily structures. A computer should be able ...
Both us and humans turn fuel (food for us, electricity for computers) into heat energy. I assume you mean the way animals assimilate part of what they...
But we are just machines. We have inputs and outputs, memory and a CPU. It's just we are so much more complex than current computers that we class our...
Science makes a rule: naturalistic solutions only allowed. No magic. Why do we make an exception to this rule for infinity? If I said I had a ruler lo...
Science allows only naturalistic explanations which excludes traditional definition of God (as supernatural). I see a problem though: what about a nat...
The question of whether there was a start of time or not may be unanswerable by observation. We are at least 14 billion years too late to observe any ...
I think it's a good axiom. The only logical alternatives to the 'material ordered collections have a first member' axiom are: 1. 'material ordered col...
All I'm saying is that if you agree with the axiom, then you agree there must have been a first motion. It argues against time extending back indefini...
The axiom 'material ordered collections have a first member' I made up. Combined with another axiom ‘motion exists’, this gives the first point in my ...
Time is not change; time governs change through the speed of light (speed=distance/time) law. Do you agree with the axiom 'material ordered collection...
I don't see how the universe can impose the speed of light speed (=time/distance) unless there is something real about time. Time having a start would...
The start of time could be coincidental withe the end of time, with the big bang triggered by the big crunch. The big crunch after all is the only pla...
But maths tries too do this. The set concept encompasses two different object types: - finite sets. Fully defined. Have cardinality - infinite sets. P...
Just because it exists in our minds does not mean it exists in reality. Talking trees existing my mind for example. Computer science may use set theor...
What operation with an indefinite result do you refer to? Just because there exists an 'infinite' number of something in our minds, does not imply an ...
Relations don't exist in the real world, quantities do. If infinity is a relation it is not part of the real world. That's a potential infinity. Anyth...
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