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Well I would class FTL travel as potentially naturalistic; it’s certainly not a magical proposition. ‘Something from nothing’ is however magical so I’...
September 28, 2018 at 13:35
A computing array is obviously bounded by memory limitations as you found out when your program hung. The naturals {1,2,3,...} are unbounded on the ri...
September 28, 2018 at 06:46
But you’d never finish counting the reals between 0 and 1 so you can’t completely define the set. And no way is the set bounded in terms of precision;...
September 27, 2018 at 18:10
The Reals between 0 and 1 are unbounded in terms of precision. Imagine writing out all such reals to 1 decimal place (0.1, 0.2, etc...), then to 2 dec...
September 27, 2018 at 16:47
Science (or natural philosophy as it used to be called) is based on naturalistic explanations. Science, for example, excludes god and magic as valid e...
September 27, 2018 at 12:12
I’m not sure it makes sense to talk about how old the something (base reality) is in the context of this argument. Remember the rest of the argument s...
September 26, 2018 at 19:54
Naturalism is the exclusion of magic from our consideration of the physical sciences. I assert that ‘something from nothing’ is a magical proposition ...
September 26, 2018 at 14:04
I’m basing my argument on common sense and naturalism - not referencing any particular rule of physics. - if you define nothing as no matter, energy, ...
September 26, 2018 at 13:47
I don’t think you can start with that premise: - Something can’t come from nothing - So something must have always existed - So the state of ‘Nothingn...
September 26, 2018 at 12:13
A finite universe is more likely than an infinite universe: - We have empirical evidence for the finite - We have no empirical evidence for the infini...
September 26, 2018 at 11:55
A good point. Both the process of growing something to oo and shrinking something to 1/oo are destroying information, which is not meant to happen in ...
September 26, 2018 at 11:43
How about this approach: - An Actual Set is a collection of distinct, listed objects like {1,2,3} - A Potential Set is the description of a potentiall...
September 26, 2018 at 10:00
It’s the set concept that is flawed. Maths uses a polymorphic definition of the word ‘set’: - a collection of distinct objects like {1,2,3} OR - the s...
September 26, 2018 at 09:40
Revelation 1:8 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty” Surel...
September 26, 2018 at 09:16
That’s not crazy; just think about spacetime; where it is not, time does not exist so there is absolute nothingness (in contrast to everyday empty spa...
September 26, 2018 at 09:03
Ok let’s use the language ‘fully defined’. A set is only fully defined once we have listed all its members. Clearly infinite sets are not fully define...
September 26, 2018 at 08:02
- there is a quantity X such that X > all other quantities - But X+1>X - Reductio ad absurdum, the actually infinite is not a quantity
September 25, 2018 at 19:27
I think the mathematicians have the definition of Point wrong: “That is, a point is defined only by some properties, called axioms, that it must satis...
September 25, 2018 at 14:46
They could leave a copy of your information in this universe so that nothing is disrupted and move your original information to the new universe.
September 24, 2018 at 22:10
Well the laws of physics might be different outside the machine, but what would be more relevant is the laws of the computer(s) hosting our virtual un...
September 24, 2018 at 21:51
You could widen the argument: - You could argue that people’s propensity to sin is determined by their nature and nuture - neither of which they can d...
September 24, 2018 at 21:32
If the universe turns out to be virtual like ‘The Matrix’ then our soul is really just our information. It’s possible to move information between comp...
September 24, 2018 at 21:01
A good point. It depends on your view of time as to whether you think the particle exists in an actually infinite number of states: - Presentist. The ...
September 24, 2018 at 15:07
Calculus has problems too. For example the infinite series 1/2^n 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 ... = 2 Logically it’s incorrect to write =2 should be ~2. It’s o...
September 24, 2018 at 06:32
The way you are solving the paradox uses the undefined quantity ‘infinity’ but I acknowledge there are other ways out of Zeno’s paradoxes other than d...
September 23, 2018 at 15:35
There is no largest natural number X because X+1>X. The natural numbers are defined, but not as a set, just the description of how to populate a set. ...
September 23, 2018 at 12:19
If we were to get the name of everyone in the world as write it down we would have the set of human faces.
September 23, 2018 at 12:16
- The concept of a human face can be defined - The ‘set of all human faces’ is a finite list so in principle is also definable (as a set) - the descri...
September 23, 2018 at 11:57
Actual Infinity is not a quantity: - There is no number X such that X > all other numbers - Because X+1 > X Space is discrete that’s why we get parado...
September 23, 2018 at 11:05
Well one-one correspondence is logically flawed: There are the same number of natural numbers as square numbers? Surely a paradox - a sign we are deal...
September 23, 2018 at 08:33
An in infinite past leads to logical contradictions so time must have a start: - the measure problem. Everything that can happen will happen, an infin...
September 22, 2018 at 15:36
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I think you can analyse god. For example, if you are a materialist, you must deny the Actually Infinite exists, so god is finite.
September 22, 2018 at 10:42
How do you completely define something that is larger than any given finite number: - You lack infinite paper to write out a definition - You lack inf...
September 22, 2018 at 08:33
But they do: the ‘set of bananas’ and {banana 1, banana 2, ...}. The first is not fully defined. Or the ‘set of rationals’ - not defined and is undefi...
September 21, 2018 at 19:05
But the two ways produce two different concepts which maths tries to then treat in the same way via fudges like transfinite numbers.
September 21, 2018 at 18:34
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(mathematics) So you are allowed to define a set: - intensionally. By specifying selection criteria Or - extensional...
September 21, 2018 at 17:29
But a set is a list of elements, if you don’t list the elements you are missing out the definition of the set. When we say ‘the set of bananas’ we are...
September 21, 2018 at 16:17
What is sound about the ‘set of all sets does not exist’? It exists as much ‘as the set of Naturals’ yet it does not exist in set theory. But anyway, ...
September 21, 2018 at 14:01
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_problem_(cosmology) Another infinity paradox. In this case cosmologists are plugging in Actual Infinity for the ...
September 21, 2018 at 13:11
Yes so it might be that the being with greatest good has only say 97% good. That does not square with some of the traditional views of god... Infinity...
September 21, 2018 at 10:46
P1 argument does not cut it for me; just because a maximum possible quantity exists it does not follow there is an object with such a quantity. Now th...
September 21, 2018 at 10:11
- Potentially infinite is the process of continued and potentially endless iteration (IE a limit). - Actually Infinite is the result of an unbounded n...
September 21, 2018 at 08:53
BTW the universe is a macroscopic object, the question of whether it has starts and ends is a macroscopic question. Quantum Mechanics is a microscopic...
September 21, 2018 at 08:47
No I believe the universe has an end: The universe is a material object and material objects have starts and ends.
September 21, 2018 at 08:44
- The concept of potential infinity is useful as an approximation of the very large and small. Potential Infinity exists in the material world. - The ...
September 21, 2018 at 08:07
I understand it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actual_infinity
September 21, 2018 at 08:01
Give me one example of the Actually Infinite from the material world.
September 21, 2018 at 07:52
I understand that maths has tried to build a consistent logical structure around the logical fallacy of the Actually Infinite and has failed. The nume...
September 21, 2018 at 07:43
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actual_infinity Please read the definitions of ‘Actual’ and ‘Potentially’ Infinite are very helpful.
September 21, 2018 at 07:10
We were looking for examples of actual infinity in nature You said a sphere with infinite segments But it’s not proven that nature is continuous So yo...
September 20, 2018 at 19:45