On Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 3:06:18 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:
You have to have a foundational theory on how things are? Theories require some evidence, yes? So where does you hypothesis come from? No. As Feynman asserts, theories are mostly guesses about how nature behave, which are verified, or not, by experiments. AG On Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 03:56:32 PM EDT, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote: You people are so confused. There is only 1 meaning of "to exist", namely "to have quality"/"to have form". As such, only qualia exist. On Wednesday, 7 May 2025 at 13:29:42 UTC+3 John Clark wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: *> So they only "exist" for certain interpretations of "exist"* *Yes but you could say exactly the same thing about just about ANYTHING.** For example, if the Many Worlds idea is correct, and I think it probably (but not certainly) is, then in the quantum realm the entire idea of a "particle", virtual or otherwise, is just an imperfect analogy. But if our monkey brains are going to understand what's going on to the greatest extent they are capable of then analogies are important, even if they're imperfect. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/2d1c42dd-c690-4ad0-b53c-067e6b82e51en%40googlegroups.com.
