Dave

Jesus was likely none of the three. The most the evidence points to is some guy named Jesus was crucified around this time. Zero evidence can apply any of the qualities of Jesus as mentioned in the numerous conflicting versions of his story…with the scantiest non-biblical evidence of his existence.

It would be like researching 17th century…[Read more]

That reminds me of the south park three-parter “imagination land” where in the end Kyle gives a very convincing speech that some fictional characters are more real and have a greater impact on our lives than even hundreds of people we know (like aquaintainces). The consequences of this is losing a terrible bet to Cartman after an adventure into…[Read more]

I don’t know unseen. Do video game characters “exist”?

Would an A.I. quality video game character be said to “exist”?

In either case, how would you as the video game programmer manipulating the code to make the character believe they exist in some more meaningful way be any different than an evil genius?

I don’t know Unseen. Descartes uses the “evil demon” which can be fairly easily replaced by “computer simulations”.

Yes, Descartes could have said, “I think therefore I live”.

Live is not the same as exist, in most contexts. Most especially in this context.

No Michael. Hictchens does not summarize the “atheist perspective”. That is a meaningless term. There is NO atheist perspective. Atheists represent billions of people around the world, many of whom have never heard of Hitchens or his arguments. If you must generalize (which you shouldn’t) then you should be referring to “New Atheists” and…[Read more]

And the ontological proof only demonstrates that your “thought” must emanate from something that exists in some form. It’s not anything remarkable really. It’s a virtual tautology. It says nothing about non-thinking objects that exist (nor objects that can think but temporarily do not). The only thing I think the ontological proof is useful for is…[Read more]

However things that are not baryonic  can do so an move and accelerate at fantastic rates as always observed of UFO’s.

Whahhhhhhhhhh?

How do those diagrams you gave explain that?

Michael it’s really hard to figure out exactly how you are answering Unseen’s question:

How can an infinitely branching system of universes be possible under determinism?

I gather that Unseen is looking for the underlying mechanism of how multiple universes branch out.

Michael while that diagram is interesting (no doubt) I don’t see how it remotely answers Unseens question. They seem to have little (if anything) to do with one another. Can you explain how those diagrams answer his question?

We’ve been under very strict lock down in Spain for two weeks now. You can only leave home (once a day) to go to the supermarket or pharmacy or to help someone who cannot (with a whole other set of strict rules regarding those cases). The police regularly stop people to ask where they are going and show proof of what they are doing (where you…[Read more]

Going insane over religious offense is by far it’s most pronounced in followers of the abrahamic religions. For that matter so is religious violence, thought control and oppression…they are also most fully realised by them. Tell ten Christians, ten Muslims and Ten Jewish people their beliefs are stupid and you would piss on their holy book and…[Read more]

I think black holes are where all the dinosaurs wen’t when the bible was being written.