On 8 March 2014 10:29, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Friday, March 7, 2014 3:52:33 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > >> On 8 March 2014 01:21, Edgar L. Owen <edga...@att.net> wrote: >> >>> All, >>> >>> An empty space within which events occur does not exist. There is no >>> universal fixed pre-existing empty space common to all events and observers. >>> >>> Why? Because we cannot establish its existence by any observation >>> whatsoever. We NEVER observe such an empty space. All we actually observe >>> is interactions between particulate matter and energy. In fact, all >>> observations ARE interactions of particulate matter or energy, they are >>> never observations of empty space itself. >>> >> >> Observations are not in fact observations of interactions between matter >> and energy, either. They are in fact interactions inside our brains, >> hypothetically the reception of nerve signals by our brain cells. >> > > There are interactions inside our brains, but that doesn't mean that those > interactions are literally our observations. It's not a fact, it's an > assumption, and one which clearly has problems once you scratch beneath the > surface. >
Yes, but the point is that there's a hierarchy of assumptions here. I was just pointing to the next level down. Going deeper doesn't invalidate Edgar's point any more than the fact of the first level does. -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
