(2020-01-10, 09:14 PM)Chris Wrote: But is the objection to that anything more than a matter of taste? I don't think logic is a matter of taste?
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
(2020-01-10, 09:21 PM)Chris Wrote: I just don't understand what the logical objection is. A time-loop means there is some information that is generated by its own existence in the future. This is akin to being your own grandfather, a logical impossibility. The only way this could work is if the loop just exists all at once in a reality where Past-Present-Future all exist. Barring an entity that makes the universe this way - an idea which is rife with its own problems - it's a Something-from-Nothing event. Thus it's not possible.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell (2020-01-10, 09:29 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: A time-loop means there is some information that is generated by its own existence in the future. I would describe that as just something you find unbelievable, not a logical impossibility. There's no logical contradiction there.
(2020-01-10, 09:35 PM)Chris Wrote: I would describe that as just something you find unbelievable, not a logical impossibility. There's no logical contradiction there. Something from Nothing is a logical contradiction?
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
(2020-01-10, 10:04 PM)Chris Wrote: I think we'll have to agree to differ about this. But thank you for clarifying. I'm not sure what we are differing on but ok...
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
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Eric Wargo is now "Big in Japan." Here is an interview with him on a Japanese podcast called "Real Rover " belonging to one John Craig. Wargo describes it as a fun conversation about "retrocausation, alchemy, Zen, and the Long Self that precognition gives access to":
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