On 12 Nov 2012, at 15:55, Richard Ruquist wrote:
Hi Roger Clough,
Actually the action of mathematical physics gives "everything" the
reason to live.
As Hawking says, there is "no need for god if you got quantum
gravity".
I confess to giving cosmic consciousness a reason to live.
http://vixra.org/pdf/1101.0044v1.pdf
Hopefully, a benevolent, understanding, tolerant and forgiving
consciousness,
that somehow chooses the best universe from an infinitude of mental
possibilities,
according to Leibniz...
But physical Nature can be stern and unforgiving.
Life as we know it will eventually disappear from earth,
for cosmic reasons later, if not human reasons sooner..
Yes, life as we know it, but not necessarily life as we don't know it.
Bruno
Richard Ruquist
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net>
wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
Leibniz thought that everything needs a sufficient reason to
exist as it does. Thus all of the parts of the universe have
a sufficient reason to be (as they are). I don't know how to
explain that by anything other than the the "God" hypothesis.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
11/12/2012
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen
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On 11/10/2012 6:01 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
There's no mystery. That's presumably how a machine packed
them during manufacture.
Hi Roger,
The order of the crackers has a cause, some physical process lead
to the order. When we are considering ontological models and theories
and using ideas that depend on epistemological knowledge, it is
easy to
fall into regress. I have found that regress can be controlled and
there
is even a nice mathematical theory that uses regressive sets - sets
that
have no least member and sets that have themselves as a member, but
any
time that we claim a 'cut off' there has to be sufficient reasons
for it.
er Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
11/10/2012
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen
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On 11/9/2012 11:24 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
Get a box of crackers with the crackers all lined perfectly up
inside.
No explanation at all is given as to how the cracker got to be
"perfectly lined up". ... Right.
That's Platonia.
Now invert the box and let the crackers fall, scattering on the
floor and some even breaking. That's our contingent world.
Nobody knows why, but that's the way time works.
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