Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​>> >> A definition can't make something exist!​ > > > ​> ​ > Wrong. > ​Are you being serious?​ > ​> ​ > Coiunterexample. I define a glodlyrapicul by a cat. That makes > the glodlyrapiculs existing ​And ​ I define a

Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God

On 08 Jan 2017, at 03:16, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 5:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​>>​ How can anything be "used" by anything if matter that obeys the laws of physics​ ​is not involved somewhere along the line ? ​> ​because with the standard definition

Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God

On 07 Jan 2017, at 20:27, Brent Meeker wrote: On 1/7/2017 2:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 07 Jan 2017, at 02:42, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​ ​>>​ It is insufficient to explain what a computation is, what is needed is