Re: Answer to Job

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He did not. --- Jules Renard On 8/11/2016 12:15 PM, Jason Resch wrote: Interesting ideas on the everything, problem of evil, and maximum good: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/15/answer-to-job/ Jason -- You

Answer to Job

Interesting ideas on the everything, problem of evil, and maximum good: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/15/answer-to-job/ 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

Re: "We spent a long time trying to convince ourselves this wasn’t real"

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: ​> ​ > Those are all good points, but it is not necessary that the Dyson > ​ ​ > builders are native of the star where they are building a certain > ​ ​ > sphere, right? > ​Maybe, but if interstellar travel was common

Re: Holiday Exercise

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​>> ​in general it's not true that they will >> ​ >> perceiving different things >> ​ >> , if you were the identical copy and in a symmetrical environment and >> facing your original the two of you would see identical

Re: That stupid diary

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​> ​ > In a post you agreed with principle 1: > Principle 1: if the guy in Helsinki is assured that the event X will be > statified/realized at both W and M, then P(X) = 1. > ​Probability is a measure of confidence, so ​

Re: Step 4? (Re: QUESTION 2 (Re: Holiday Exercise

On 09 Aug 2016, at 19:32, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​> ​a nine years old child get the point ​And I might get your point if I had the mentality of a nine year old child, or of something similar like an ancient Greek.

Re: That stupid diary

On 09 Aug 2016, at 19:24, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​> ​I am still waiting for an explanation about your two recent posts which contradicted themselves. ​What are you talking about?​ In a post you agreed with

Re: Holiday Exercise

On 09 Aug 2016, at 23:30, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: ​> ​I think the default assumption is that consciousness supervenes on the brain, so two different brains will realize two different consciousnesses because they are at

Re: Holiday Exercise

On 09 Aug 2016, at 07:28, Bruce Kellett wrote: On 9/08/2016 3:14 pm, Brent Meeker wrote: On 8/8/2016 7:03 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: On 9/08/2016 10:51 am, Brent Meeker wrote: On 8/8/2016 4:32 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: On 9/08/2016 3:01 am, Brent Meeker wrote: I think Russell is just saying

Re: Holiday Exercise

On 09 Aug 2016, at 02:57, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 9 August 2016 at 03:52, Brent Meeker wrote: On 8/8/2016 6:18 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Monday, 8 August 2016, Brent Meeker wrote: On 8/7/2016 11:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: