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One of the problems with modern thinking is that to 'know' usually means abstract, intellectual knowledge as if that is the only kind of knowledge. Sp...

George Boole is your man . Computation is an analogue of logic.

Existence. All created things are properties of existence.

We are properties of it and perceive other properties/creations.

I agree. 'Nothing' is no (created) - thing, which can be a positive existence.

If nothingness has a power to cause anything, it is not nothingness. Nothingness is not even there. 'It' is not even an it; 'it' is entirely absent.

I'm not trying to prove anything, just provide food for thought.

Mind is necessary for anything to evolve beyond a primitive level of complexity. Thought comes before all else that is created. Thought is more real t...

There is something because there is nothing to prevent it??? Existence/God contains all possibilities. The real is what has been made real from this p...

Well, it is theism. Does existence/God have attributes even before creation comes into being? I don't know. Yes, properties of existence (contingent/c...

There is something rather than nothingness. This eternal something is existence. Either we have something or nothingness. Clearly there is something t...

It is really just semantic. I hope my use of the word existence is clear. As for quantum fluctuations; nothingness is profoundly 'empty'. It is the pi...

Clearly existence (the uncreated void) contains possibilities since existence became many things: tables, chairs, elephants, stars, planets... These t...

My argument is that if God exists, existence is God. Now this brings up the question; How/Why did existence become being/life/consciousness/creativity...

This is an example of how being and existence can be confused. I see existence as a primordial, eternal, positive. An analogy is a lump of lead repres...

Existence, as I am using the term, is not a verb nor is it a property. It is the eternal positive, as opposed to nothingness, that is. It is what is t...

God and nature are not identical. Temporal Nature is a property of God. God/existence becomes.

There is no problem with evidence. The entire universe is evidence. The question is; evidence for what? That is, it is our interpretation of the evide...

Yes, I have looked at some of his videos. V. good.

I think chess is a good analogy. Once the concept of chess exists all possible chess games are given potential. Once a chess game is played (even in o...

Yes, mathematical potential exists because our forms of mathematics exists - linear equations, set theory etc. So the question is, where is this poten...

I disagree with him entirely- There is no junk, there is only mathematical truth. An example is chess: Chess is a concept built on a few simple ideas ...

It is the difference between a synonym and a metaphor. A synonym does not necessarily exhibit the nature of its cause but a metaphor or analogy more c...

Total possible universes = every possible arrangement of Plank spaces and Plank times?

I agree entirely. The loss of good language will be our undoing.

The problem is with the word 'divide'. The connections between things are as important as the things themselves and when things are severed apart they...

n is known and its factors, p and q are unknown. p or q are to be found.

n is the modulus. If pq = n the algorithm is designed to find p or q. Mod n finds the remainder on division. eg 114 = 14 (mod 100) because 14 is the r...

Yes, so we need to qualify words like 'energy' and 'matter' and keep them in context.

Interestingly Pollard's Rho method uses this kind of iteration and waits for circularity to factor integers- x = 3 f(x) = x^2 + 1 (mod n) f(x) = x_{1}...

It depends on how you define matter. For me, usually, matter is everything from the hydrogen atom up: things that are constructed. There is an express...

Matter does not exist as a substance in the way our (crude) senses convince us. The substance of matter is energy and matter - when we mean a physical...

I think self and ego are not the same. The self is one's individuality, the ego is self-ish or self-centered. Love looks out and loves what is not sel...

The narrative we are being given is that we have a global warming problem and we have to fix that and move on to 2050 and beyond. This narrative is fa...

Yes. Reductive science takes things apart and studies the parts but in doing so it has broken all connections. But connections between parts are as im...

Yes, 99.999% of what we do is plagiarism!

Yes, thought is being; I think therefore I am. When we think our minds move through eternity/God, as a fish moves through the sea. Intellectual philos...

Trick question. As long as you are talking about tiny triangles the sides add up to more than the diagonal. No matter how small they get. So the only ...

Yes. The Battle of Britain.

I don't think science would collapse. It would be like the beginning of the last century when they thought the subject of science was this 4 dimension...

If there is no free will accountability becomes a mere social convenience and not a moral issue.

What if good ultimately involves allowing creation to risk suffering by being free?

What I mean is that it leads to its own punishment. What happens to them in the next life?

I think in modern times the line between hypothesis and scientific knowledge is being blurred. The theory of evolution is often presented as done and ...

The problem is not science, it is the abuse of scientific knowledge, among other things. But scientism probably exacerbates anti science because it bl...

The question has to do with what the world is. Theists maintain there is a spiritual reality to the world. If the materialist denies the existence of ...

It seems to me that 'equal rights' somehow got confused with 'equality'. People are not equal. Is an idiot equal to Einstein? No. A man equal to a wom...

That is my point. Do bats live in our world? The world of art, literature, commerce, finance, politics? If bats are not conscious of these worlds they...

Believers understand the world differently. Even a mathematician or artist experiences the world differently. That is because they are conscious in a ...

I'm afraid the church is like a wagon that picks up a lot of sticky things on its wheels as it goes along. Christianity is full of pagan or useless id...