Jon, List: A bit of nit-picking below, particularly in light of the organic chemistry /bedrock claim.
> On May 27, 2019, at 4:20 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt <jonalanschm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Suppose, then, that an absolutely correct and infinitely detailed map of > Governor's Island in New York Harbour be laid down on the ground there. Then > since the map represents the topography and all the features at the time the > map is lying there, the map must show the map itself lying there; and must so > show that map that, in the map of the map, may be seen the map lying upon it, > and on that map of the map of the map may again be seen the map, with a > sufficient microscope and so on, ad infinitum, that is, down to a > mathematical point which will be nothing but the map of itself and the same > will be true with every map of its own environment, unless it be ring-shaped; > and it is much the same with any book whose last word is Finis. The phrase > "with a sufficient microscope and so on, ad infinitum, that is, down to a > mathematical point " is false if one considers that the map is a physical object, composed from atoms of finite scale. The individual molecules of the physical map are finite in scale and thus the extension can be extended below the atomic scale. In this instance, it appears that CSP failed to consider the meaning of Avogadro’s number. Cheers Jerry
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