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Well maybe God thought of numbers first so they exist in God's mind? Here's a thing- On the x-axis mark the line 0 to 1. You have one unit made of inf...
January 14, 2025 at 20:49
Infinity is all numbers together. The whole set, be it Aleph Null or higher. Aleph Null is the natural numbers in an infinite set. Aleph One may be th...
January 14, 2025 at 20:40
Numbers exist as sets. They are generated by iteration and partition- Start with / Iterate // Reiterate /// Continue ///////////////////////////... Pa...
January 14, 2025 at 19:33
In Cantor's system counting is not 1,2,3,...it is about a one to one correspondence- 1 -> a 2 -> b 3 -> c etc. If an infinity can be matched in this w...
January 14, 2025 at 19:26
"3. Reality Requires Observation: The universe exists only when observed. Without observation, there’s only potentiality—an idea resonating with quant...
January 14, 2025 at 19:16
Mathematics is the highest discourse because it is always true.
December 01, 2024 at 17:54
I once had a conversation online and this guy said that Nietzsche said the (physical) universe does not contain any ethical principle. But he also arg...
November 29, 2024 at 09:52
The regularities of the laws of nature are, as you seem to imply, often seen as laws like tax laws that are imposed by an external agent but in realit...
November 28, 2024 at 20:50
It is interesting that as soon as the ancient earth was ready to sustain primitive life, life got started right away.
May 11, 2024 at 16:47
I believe in evolution but the Theory Of Evolution is woefully incomplete. I don't believe mutations can create a person, the works of Shakespeare, a ...
May 10, 2024 at 19:10
If you consider it in terms of photons time travel is not possible. Suppose on Jan 1, 2000, there is a light source at A. Photons travel to B. Now a t...
December 28, 2023 at 11:36
Why would the singularity be uncaused? Eternity precedes time.
October 21, 2023 at 20:12
The essential teaching of religion is The Way. I am the way. It is the Tao or Right Living as the Buddhists would say. The external forms of religion ...
October 21, 2023 at 18:56
"If you doubt that truth for humans is socially constructed, then answer me this (I would genuinely like an answer if you have one): If truth for peop...
October 01, 2023 at 15:52
1. consistent replacement of supernatural explanations of the world with natural ones. It is moot whether these natural explanations are such. Each ca...
September 29, 2023 at 18:45
Well that's just semantics. In common parlance 'science' has a broader meaning and the word is used loosely. Here's a headline: "Security Council meet...
September 29, 2023 at 17:07
I do. I was responding to this- I'm simply saying that science is no improvement on philosophy/religion when it comes to the big questions. I'm not cr...
September 29, 2023 at 15:14
Well, how has science answered the big questions such as the ones I pointed out? Science is not philosophy so there's no point in pretending it is. It...
September 29, 2023 at 14:55
I'm not criticizing science. I'm simply saying it is not an improvement on 'God did it'.
September 29, 2023 at 14:39
We are talking about the big questions. Philosophical questions. What is existence? What is eternity? Is it conscious? Why is the universe mathematica...
September 29, 2023 at 10:37
We are talking about the big questions in this thread. Science does not answer them. When science does answer lesser questions it is normally an expla...
September 29, 2023 at 09:50
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September 28, 2023 at 18:28
I think it is a mistake to absolutize these statements. They are just rules of thumb and there are always exceptions: the iron behind the velvet. Some...
September 28, 2023 at 18:15
To be precise, science explains nothing either. Science describes the physical world: Hydrogen + Oxygen = water. But what is hydrogen? Well, a proton ...
September 28, 2023 at 17:50
Like Jurassic Park the novelty of digital art grabs you but it cannot hold for long. It becomes tedious. These days computer art makes me feel queasy....
September 28, 2023 at 15:35
Mathematical truth is not a supposition. It is logical independently of what we think.
September 28, 2023 at 13:45
It is the other war around; the universe is embedded in mathematics. pi is a geometric proportion but it can, with infinite precision, be expressed as...
September 28, 2023 at 11:32
I'm talking about individual revelation from God or His teachers. There is no other way.
September 25, 2023 at 09:18
Why must it fall away from unity/good? It is possible to evolve towards the good. Not all intention is against the good.
September 25, 2023 at 09:02
Human beings cannot discern spiritual truth by their own means. It must be given to them. Philosophy has failed in its task to answer the big question...
September 25, 2023 at 09:01
Lucifer and the angels were spiritual, not physical beings. They descended into 'veils of matter' (Origen). The fall led to physical existence.
September 24, 2023 at 19:47
Press two north poles of two magnets together. You will feel (close your eyes) something solid between the magnets. Solidity is only energy fields pus...
September 24, 2023 at 15:56
The fall of creation happened before the physical universe was created. Life in the fallen universe is imperfect because perfection is spiritual, not ...
September 24, 2023 at 11:50
Hynek suggested they get here via the Astral Plane - what some call extra dimensions or, more traditionally, the spiritual world. Many of the reported...
September 20, 2023 at 14:24
The main requirement would be that the humanoid form is optimal.
September 20, 2023 at 10:41
Someone once said the humanoid form is universal. I think it was Orfeo Angelucci.
September 19, 2023 at 19:42
Some children are bad as soon as they learn how to express badness in a human context. Likewise with some good children. When consciousness loves some...
September 19, 2023 at 19:34
Well you can call it the source of all that is, if you want to avoid the religious. Personally I think the emergence of existence into being (life) is...
June 21, 2023 at 14:42
See my last answer.
June 21, 2023 at 11:41
It seems to me that (ontological) space has the potential for any number of dimensions. Physical matter can manifest 4 dimensions. I suspect that dime...
June 21, 2023 at 11:40
In the 'beginning' existence and God are the same thing. Existence is not a verb, it is a noun. God becomes/creates. Contingent creation is a property...
June 21, 2023 at 11:37
Physical space is an emergent property of matter. It is a physical object just like a table or a chair. Physical spacetime has an extra dimension, tim...
June 19, 2023 at 16:35
But I'm not talking about imaginary existences.
June 19, 2023 at 16:29
When we ask 'where' a particle is we must specify which spacetime we are talking about, quantum or physical spacetime. Since particles don't exist in ...
June 17, 2023 at 11:10
Do you understand what existence is? What a positive existence, as opposed to nothingness, means? If you don't you will not understand what I'm saying...
June 17, 2023 at 11:07
Existence is not a property of God. Existence IS God. All contingent things are properties of existence. Existence is what is from the beginning. It a...
June 16, 2023 at 19:29
Generally speaking 'space' is used in two senses; geometric space and ontological space. In physics there are two geometric spaces, the quantum spacet...
June 16, 2023 at 18:21
The difference is merely semantic. Experience is knowledge.
April 14, 2023 at 16:44
There is abstract, intellectual knowledge. There is carnal knowledge. Eat an apple; you know what an apple tastes like. There is consciousness, there ...
April 13, 2023 at 17:45
There are different kinds of knowing. In one way I don't know but in another, I believe I do.
April 12, 2023 at 21:41