On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
> > > On 10/25/2015 10:32 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> > wrote: > >> >> >> On 10/25/2015 9:48 PM, Jason Resch wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Bruce Kellett < >> <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au>bhkell...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: >> >>> The only sort of existence for which we have concrete evidence is >>> physical existence. We can understand imaginary things, but we have no >>> direct evidence for their existence -- certainly not for their physical >>> existence. >>> >> >> Do you acknowledge that we have no evidence that such things do not >> exist? And therefore, we should at least remain agnostic on the idea rather >> than reject the idea out of hand? >> >> >> Hmm? Shall I be agnostic about the existence of a teapot orbiting >> Jupiter? I have no evidence it doesn't exist. I wonder if Jason Resch is >> really a very cleverly programmed chatbot? Maybe I'll be agnostic about it. >> > > In both those cases you do have evidence: your knowledge about how matter > organizes itself, and the current state of AI. To say other > realities/structures besides our universe exist is something you have > absolutely zero evidence for. > > > So having zero evidence for them I proportion my belief to the evidence > (c.f. Hume) > > That was a typo, I meant to say "To say other realities/structures besides our universe *don't* exist is something you have absolutely zero evidence for." I take it you have now corrected your proportion of belief for the above statement to reflect the amount of evidence you have. Jason -- 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.
