Re: Why I am I?

2009-12-09 Thread Brent Meeker
benjayk wrote: > Rex Allen wrote: > >>> Where could the explanation begin? >>> >> I'd say there is no explanation. It just is what it is. As Brent >> said...it's descriptions all the way down. >> > I wouldn't neccesarily disagree, though only if you mean verbal or formal > explanat

Re: Why I am I?

2009-12-09 Thread benjayk
Rex Allen wrote: > >> Where could the explanation begin? > > I'd say there is no explanation. It just is what it is. As Brent > said...it's descriptions all the way down. I wouldn't neccesarily disagree, though only if you mean verbal or formal explanation. In a sense our life and our experie

Re: Why I am I?

2009-12-09 Thread Rex Allen
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 08 Dec 2009, at 09:50, Rex Allen wrote: > In such a reality, things just are what they are. If you find some explanations "good" and others "bad", that's just the epiphenominal residue of more fundamental physical processe

Re: The seven step series (december 2009)

2009-12-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Dec 2009, at 01:42, m.a. wrote: > Bruno, >This is a stupid question but I'm hoping it contains the > kernel of an idea. Since logic is based on a few common definitions, > do you really need all these complicated steps and permutations to > prove a theory? Why can't you sh

Re: Crystallizing block universe?

2009-12-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Dec 2009, at 11:25, ronaldheld wrote: > Anyone want to give this a try and comment? > http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0912/0912.0808v1.pdf He cites only Isham (very good book, by the way), for the non collapse view. it may be interesting to describe the crystallization in that set

Re: Crystallizing block universe?

2009-12-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Ronald, Thank you for this reference and querry for comments. I recall that this idea, of a crystalizing space-time, appears in The Maker of Dune, a collection of letters, short stories and essays by Frank Herbert - the Science Fiction writer famous for his Dune series. The following are

Re: Crystallizing block universe?

2009-12-09 Thread silky
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:25 PM, ronaldheld wrote: > Anyone want to give this a try and comment? >  http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0912/0912.0808v1.pdf Yes; I too found it quite fascinating, I was reading it yesterday! The most I have to offer on it is that it references the Wheeler "Delayed

Crystallizing block universe?

2009-12-09 Thread ronaldheld
Anyone want to give this a try and comment? http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0912/0912.0808v1.pdf Ronald -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to ev