Well, the why not something won't work. If he doesn't see the problem identifying
negation with absence, then he won't grok the significance of the "not" there.
He's a philosopher, but not trained in any formal logic. He's more from the literary
tradition. Of course, logically inclined people g
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
Frank, it was definitely a panic attack, but with a strange sense of observing
myself having one. I have had similar experiences where I was aware that my
body was going into shock, but somehow remaining independent and being able to
"manage" the process with meditation and breathing techniques.
Dave,
Would you call the anxiety you experienced a "panic attack"? I've had a
couple each of which was stimulated by a dream in which I was going to be
trapped inside of something (claustrophobia). In each case it took
medication to dissipate the intense anxiety. Also, I think I had a milder
at
An experiential (400 mike trip):
In the beginning there was Nothing — the Singularity. Then a quite literally
impossible differentiation occurred; setting of a chain reaction of
differentiation and hence Something(s).
This experience parallels the Taoist dictum that from One came Two, from Two
It's OK. I fixed your larding format.
Just like with your challenge to what "possible" means, we have to also challenge the use of "random". You
can't say "experience is random" without some kind of _set_ or _space_ of experiences from which to choose. E.g. it
makes sense to say things like "Th
Glen,
Forgive me for larding but it is the best way for me when I have a yet a little
to say back to somebody who has had a lot to say a lot.
Nick Thompson
thompnicks...@gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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