That all seems right to me.
We could even imagine that there is only one universe, and it is normally
nothing, but that, during very short windows within the time when it isn't,
sometimes sentient life springs up and asks silly questions.
Have you tried countering with "Why NOT something?"
On W
Yes. I made the anthropocentric argument at one point. Either I did a bad job of it, or
he rejects it for some other reason. But I have NOT made the sheer numbers argument yet.
An ordering in time, like you use with "long enough" doesn't seem, to me, very
distinct from an ordering in space (num
This always struck me as such a weird discussion. I've had people try to
drag me into it a few times.
If there was ever the slightest change that something could come from
nothing, and nothing was around for long enough, eventually something would
come from it.
But, I think the better point is s
