Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God

2017-01-18 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: ​> ​ > I don't think it's obvious that we could detect that a probe had been sent > to a star. > ​It would be obvious if it was a self replicating von Neumann probe, just one probe could construct a Dyson Sphere around every star in the Galaxy

Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God

2017-01-18 Thread Brent Meeker
I don't think it's obvious that we could detect that a probe had been sent to a star. And in any case the observable universe is very much bigger than our galaxy. Brent On 1/18/2017 9:25 AM, John Clark wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: ​>> ​ ​Betters ​ ​ pace teles

Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God

2017-01-18 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 3:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​> ​ > God is the creator (in a large sense of the word) of the universe. > ​That's exactly the problem, the large sense of the word "creator" is so large it becomes meaningless. Your God does not ​need to be a person, your God doesn't need t

Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God

2017-01-18 Thread John Clark
Bruno Marchal wrote: ​>> ​ >> ​Betters >> ​ ​ >> pace telescopes >> ​ would be great but they're not needed for that. If God or ET existed it >> would be obvious to a blind man in a fog bank. ​ >> > > ​> ​ > Assuming a small universe, but nothing prevents the existence of Aliens in > far away gala