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_______ (Continued from prior post) _______ (Continued from prior post) Yes, and your OP title clearly states that "Nothing to somthing [sic] is logically impossible" . However, you also agreed with the idea that the ̶s̶o̶m̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ something from which the universe emerged - "alwa...

Well, you may be familiar with my theory, but you certainly don't seem to understand it, otherwise you would not have suggested that we "end up" in a parallel universe as opposed to literally becoming a parallel universe. Anyway, setting that aside for now, explain to me how we become &qu...

How so? Please explain how everything in the universe "experiences"? Well, I have to provide you with the argument for the mind which is based on the fact that change exists. Well, the idea is that any change needs the mind to occur, and to do the change mind has to have the ability to ex...

Great, you got the point. But then when I said So, accepting the OP, there is no time in the past where there was nothing. you seemed to disagree. I don't recall why and where I said that. Could you please provide a link to the post? https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?p=693447#p693447 in...

I am not talking about the programming and I don't think that reality is a simulation. You are talking about a syntax/notation for representing and manipulating infinite precision infinitesimals, OK. coupled with formal semantics + pragmatics. What do you mean? By any other name - it's a programmin...

Harbal wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:03 pm

bahman wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:48 pm I was wondering how Karma is enforced in Buddhism. Is there a deity who is in charge of the calculation of Karma?

This is all I could find on the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IJI6soiQhI

Nice music!

Francis Collins began the BioLogos Foundation: The BioLogos Foundation is a Christian advocacy group that supports the view that God created the world using evolution of different species as the mechanism. It was established by Francis Collins in 2007 after receiving letters and emails from people ...

I was wondering how Karma is enforced in Buddhism. Is there a deity who is in charge of the calculation of Karma?

_______ (Continued from prior post) That is your concern. You are applying the (Nothing -> Something) function to cosmology, and ultimately whether reality could've come from Nothing. Could reality come from The NIhil? Zero. Does 1 proceed from 0? Logicians and Computer Scientists are united in say...

You still don't seem to understand the theory I am promoting. We don't end up in a parallel universe. No, what I am suggesting is that we each have been imbued with the ("seed-like") potential of creating a new universe out of the living fabric of our very own being (just as God has done ...

Sure not. By nothing, I mean no thing at all. Thenthere was no time when there was nothing. By nothing, I mean no thing including time. From nothing comes nothing as Parmenides wisely said. that seems to fit with there not being a time in the past when there was nothing. Great, you got the point. B...

So, accepting the OP, there is no time in the past where there was nothing. No, that does not follow from OP. Was there, then, a time in the past when there was nothing? Sure not. By nothing, I mean no thing at all. I can show that spacetime is fundamental and cannot begin to exist or be caused. th...

I am familiar with all of those. The trouble is that if your conception of time has the smoothness property then your "arbitarrily small number" is necessarily nilpotent. No, that is not correct. An arbitrarily small number is not nilpotent. And if your infinitesimals are not nilpotent, t...

Oh, interesting. Thanks for letting me know. It seems that I missed a lot of things by not being involved in ethical theory. I corrected some of my weak and confusing writing in that post and added some new points, or at least rewordings to make it clearer. Ok, thanks for letting me know. I read yo...

What's an "arbitrarily small number"? At what point does an "arbitrarily small number" begin to require "arbitrarily large" amounts of time to compute? Please read here . I am familiar with all of those. The trouble is that if your conception of time has the smoothness...