On 10/25/2015 10:45 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto: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 <mailto: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
<mailto: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.
No, I find that you've convinced me of your way of thinking. I can
conceive of all those other realities/structures NOT existing and so I
must adopt that as my belief.
Brent
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