Channeling Hywel, I hope accurately: There is no irrational number of things of any type in the Universe
----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 7:52 AM glen∈ℂ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ha! You raise two excellent points: > > 1) Is "a beer" a portion of a given volume or a massive noun? > https://youtu.be/cf0y2pVw6Tk Or perhaps it refers to different batches, > distinguished by the process (ingredients, mash, boil, distribution)? But > what if you're a macro brewery and your quality control is so tight that > there's almost 0 difference between batches? > > 2) Would a monist object to the idea that we could distinguish a 1.001 > pluralist from a 1001 pluralist? After all the only difference between > having 1001 types of thing and 1.001 types of thing is scaling. So, the > real difference would be spectral pluralist vs. continuum pluralist. So, > we'd need to find a pluralist who thought there were an irrational number > of thing types. > > This episode was rather nice: "Does Life Need a Multiverse to Exist?" < > https://youtu.be/YmOVoIpaPrc?t=404> Up to that point, he's relying on an > intuitive orthogonality between the forces and constants ... a typical > misunderstanding of the "fine-tuning" argument. He goes on (from the time I > included in the URL) to hint at the unified, *relational* sense of the > argument. And he mentions it specifically later, I think in talking about > how string theory tries to generate the different properties from the One > True Substance. 8^) > > On 11/15/19 12:31 PM, Prof David West wrote: > > I just bought a book for a Dutch friend - 1001 Beers. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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