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What you said here can be used as an argument for the multiverse which I don't think you'll ever believe in. So usually your post are just a bit mad. This one is barking. So Hobbes, what's your explanation for the earth events happening here instead of elsewhere in our universe (to the best of our ...

Just ran across this article: http://m.phys.org/news/2015-12-puzzle-elements-universe.html This is the part I'm focused on: "The LUNA experiment at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy has observed a RARE nuclear reaction that occurs in giant red stars..." How lucky we are. PhilX

Is that the best answer you can give? How do you think the AP affects your view point? Hobbes, I had anticipated the AP independently so it doesn't affect my viewpoint (see what Leo said just above about physical constants). To go from randomness to life (more ordered) or intelligence (even more or...

Could you prove there is no real space? As it happens I can prove this but the burden of proof does not lie with me. If you wish to claim some sort of ontological status for a mathematical space then you contradict millennia of mainstream philosophy and the convention in such cases is that the burd...

No such thing as a stupid question. Yes there is. How many dimensions is real space? This is a stupid question because there's no such thing as a real space. A space by definition is a mathematical object and thus it is an abstraction like any other mathematical object. How heavy is a five? Since t...

Obvious Leo wrote:

Philosophy Explorer wrote: I don't do boomerang questions.

And I don't do stupid ones.

No such thing as a stupid question.

PhilX

Obvious Leo wrote:You should be able to answer it yourself. What is a dimension?

I don't do boomerang questions.

PhilX

Obvious Leo wrote:

Philosophy Explorer wrote: How many dimensions is real space?

As a maths enthusiast you should be embarrassed to ask such a foolish question.

Same question.

PhilX

When did I ever question the reality of the universe, Phil? You don't remember? Have you changed your mind and now say the universe is real? PhilX I never made any such comment. You should stop smoking that shit. I've many times claimed that 3 dimensional space is not physically real but rather an ...

To go from randomness to life (more ordered) or intelligence (even more ordered) to me is nothing short of a miracle on earth. If you start with randomness I would agree with you. However evolution can explain the rest. Why the constants are the way they are instead of being less or more is another...

Obvious Leo wrote:When did I ever question the reality of the universe, Phil?

You don't remember? Have you changed your mind and now say the universe is real?

PhilX

tbieter wrote:Does an unconscious thing have a will?

Consciousness guarantees limited free will while unconsciousness may or may not, depending.

PhilX

Is that the best answer you can give? How do you think the AP affects your view point? Hobbes, I had anticipated the AP independently so it doesn't affect my viewpoint (see what Leo said just above about physical constants). To go from randomness to life (more ordered) or intelligence (even more or...

This relates to an earlier thread which you tried to start when you posed this question of equal absurdity. Q. Why is it that the universe is seen to conform to the particular suite of laws and mathematical constants which physics has "discovered" instead of to some other laws and constan...

tbieter wrote:

Philosophy Explorer wrote:It would seem so. I equate consciousness with existence which would imply I have limited free will, otherwise who is doing the willing?

PhilX

Please clarify.

What don't you understand?

PhilX