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Fuzzball Baggins

['Member']Joined: December 03, 2018 at 20:50Last active: December 11, 2018 at 13:073 discussions11 comments

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In: The measure problem  — view comment
Actually I believe that numbers ARE things - that our physical reality is based on mathematics, and numbers are at the heart of everything. But we'll ...
December 11, 2018 at 13:17
In: The measure problem  — view comment
You may not be able to observe through empirical evidence that an infinite thing exists, but that doesn't mean it's unreasonable to infer that it exis...
December 10, 2018 at 11:32
In: The measure problem  — view comment
Your claims seem a little arbitrary. Especially your claim that the multiverse being seen on the one hand as a multitude and on the other as a single ...
December 09, 2018 at 11:01
In: The measure problem  — view comment
I think you're taking the English language a little too far, using its structure to decide what can and cannot exist in reality. Think about your reas...
December 08, 2018 at 12:27
In: The measure problem  — view comment
Okay, I agree with you that an object should be bounded. But I don't consider the multiverse to be an object. In fact, I think that the multiverse is ...
December 07, 2018 at 18:02
In: Are Numbers Necessary?  — view comment
I suppose it is possible that our concept of numbers is wrong, but saying that humans are not omnipotent and therefore don't understand everything doe...
December 06, 2018 at 10:38
In: The measure problem  — view comment
I'm not sure I agree that an infinite thing is ill-defined, or that the multiverse is an object, or that objects have to be bounded. It might be diffi...
December 06, 2018 at 10:24
In: The measure problem  — view comment
Yeah, it probably is. Mathematics represents reality so well that I think sometimes people get carried away. I suppose this is really more a discussio...
December 05, 2018 at 11:55
In: What's interesting about the personal vs subpersonal distinction?  — view comment
I find it interesting to wonder about at what level of complexity consciousness arises. If you look at things from the subpersonal view, the separate ...
December 04, 2018 at 12:53
In: The measure problem  — view comment
Why do sets have to be bounded? What about the set of all integers - is that not a proper set?
December 04, 2018 at 12:43
In: The measure problem  — view comment
Hi SophistiCat, the physicist who said it was Max Tegmark. The first half of his book Our Mathematical Universe is very good, but in the second half h...
December 04, 2018 at 12:26
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