On 01 Mar 2014, at 02:18, Russell Standish wrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 04:14:29PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Isn't it crazy to reject what there is enormous evidence for and
accept what there is NO evidence for?
That is what you do. There are no evidence for any universe, and
indeed, as you assume comp, you could understand that there is no
universe. The notion is close to inconsistent, and explanatively
empty.
Physicists measure numbers, and infer relation among numbers. Then
even cosmological theories usually avoid metaphysical commitment.
This is done by physicalist philosophers, and can make sense, but
then not together with the assumption that the brain functions
mechanically at some level.
Sorry to be pernicketty, but if you are working in a theory that makes
no ontologicical commitment (or metaphysical, which I assume is the
same thing), then how does that contradict your reversal result?
Because it is theology, but done "scientifically", and so can assume
an ontology with the only goal to refute it by absurdo, although here,
as in any applied theory, we need Occam razor.
It is
only a theory _about_ phenomena, not about what's ontologically real.
Theology is concerned with ontology, but does not commit itself on any
of them, except for refuting them by absurdo. But that is not a
commitment, only a temporary assumption.
bruno
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