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- Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:32 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The amazing self-undermining argument
- Replies: 60
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. . . otherwise it leaves no room for disagreements, and the world would be a rather "happy" but undoubtedly a boring place. If everyone were equally rational then everyone would eventually arrive at the same conclusions, after hearing all the arguments. However this still leaves room for people to...
- Sun Aug 21, 2005 9:02 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Perfection
- Replies: 241
- Views: 95089
Determinism holds that all events are necessitated by prior events. That basically means IF all information about event A is known, then, all information about event B can be predicted[known before it occurs]. Certainly. But it is not possible to know all information about any event. Indeterminism ...
- Sun Aug 21, 2005 6:02 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Perfection
- Replies: 241
- Views: 95089
If free will does not exist in reality, as DQ asserts, then reality is completely deterministic, and in principle, completely predictable. Determinism is about things being caused. It doesn't say that we can predict things. Even simple things like the weather, or the throwing of a dice can't be pre...
- Sun Aug 21, 2005 5:12 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Perfection
- Replies: 241
- Views: 95089
Indeterminism
Have a read of the "Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics" post half way down the following page:
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- Sun Aug 21, 2005 4:33 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Perfection
- Replies: 241
- Views: 95089
This indeterminism is itself a fundamental property OF existence. Indeterminism (in physics) doesn't say anything about whether things are caused or not. It is concerned with predictability. Things are caused without being predictable. No physical event is really predictable (ie, with certainty), s...
- Sun Aug 21, 2005 3:45 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Useful URL (genius.theabsolute.net)
- Replies: 1
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Useful URL (genius.theabsolute.net)
If you're on holidays and want to visit the forum, just type:
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into your web browser, and it will take you to this forum.
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- Sun Aug 21, 2005 2:44 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Constantin Brunner
- Replies: 53
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- Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:57 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The amazing self-undermining argument
- Replies: 60
- Views: 24824
Philosophaster wrote: The possibility of faulty memories may make it impossible to distinguish good arguments from bad ones: "Faulty memory" really means no memory. Take the case of a person who has no memory. They would not even be able to identify anything (A=A), so they would in fact be totally u...
- Sat Aug 20, 2005 11:44 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Constantin Brunner
- Replies: 53
- Views: 23980
Brunner
David wrote: I still can't distinguish him from an ordinary Christian. Can you, Kevin? He does seem more mystical in his approach, and slightly more rational than the average Christian. But all that stuff about Jesus being perfect and other sages like the Buddha being lesser, I find very ordinary. I...
- Sat Aug 20, 2005 1:15 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Constantin Brunner
- Replies: 53
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Re: Brunner
Brunner provides an extensive comparison of Christ and Buddha Ok, Brunner says: "The legend of Buddha is beautiful and profound, but Christ and his story are true." :-) Very funny. around Buddha, by contrast, everything has an Indian rigidity and lifelessness. I would only say it has an Indianness....
- Fri Aug 19, 2005 4:07 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Constantin Brunner
- Replies: 53
- Views: 23980
Re: Brunner
Brunner uses the word perfect in the same sense as Spinoza: "By reality and perfection I understand the same thing." (Spinoza, Ethics , Pt. 2, Def. VI) Using that meaning, everyone is perfect, since everyone is reality. Thus the words of Christ are for both Brunner and Spinoza the most complete exp...
- Fri Aug 19, 2005 1:43 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Constantin Brunner
- Replies: 53
- Views: 23980
Brunner
The above passage by Brunner is not bad, but the bit where he says "He was the perfect mystical-spiritual prophet" is problematic to say the least, and reeks a little of the dogma he wants to overturn. How can we, or Brunner, know that Jesus was in fact "perfect"? Firstly, we would need to have much...
- Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:25 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Perfection
- Replies: 241
- Views: 95089
Limitations
Yes, there can be no argument about this. It is a fact of Nature that a thing cannot be other than what it is.analog57 wrote:A thing can only be itself. A thing does not have the freedom to be anything else.
- Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:57 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Quantum
- Replies: 47
- Views: 20856
Nonlocality
I'm not really thinking of it as backwards causality, going off what I know about it. I'm thinking more of the iron blockish nature of a wholly determined system. Things could not be any other way than they are, things will not be any other way than they will be, and things could not have been any ...
- Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:53 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Quantum
- Replies: 47
- Views: 20856
Like you say, virtually all the energy is removed from a bunch of squashed together atoms by cooling them to almost absolute zero. Because we can now know the energy state (and therefore the momentum) of all these atoms very precisely, we can no longer know their position (the conjugate variable of...
- Sun Aug 14, 2005 3:50 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Quantum
- Replies: 47
- Views: 20856
Uncertainty principle
The Uncertainty principle is for 'real'. It describes a physical actuality, not a limitation of perception. For example, were this not the case, Bose-Einstein condensation would be impossible. I've just read up about Bose-Einstein condensation, but it doesn't seem to prove that the uncertainties of...
- Sun Aug 14, 2005 3:54 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Perfection
- Replies: 241
- Views: 95089
According to your above reasoning, the second A on the right of the equals sign is not really the first A on the left. Those are actually two separate things. Only separate things can be added. Whoever wrote "A+A = 2A" thinks so, yes. In "A=A" (the law of identity) the two "A"s cannot be added, bec...
- Sat Aug 13, 2005 10:27 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Perfection
- Replies: 241
- Views: 95089
- Sat Aug 13, 2005 10:21 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Perfection
- Replies: 241
- Views: 95089
- Sat Aug 13, 2005 7:21 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Perfection
- Replies: 241
- Views: 95089
- Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:39 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Constantin Brunner
- Replies: 53
- Views: 23980
Re: Constantin Brunner
"How are we to understand Christ, how can we envisage him, this man of Truth, stolen by the men of superstition?" Constantin Brunner
I think it looks interesting. I'll have a browse of your site.
I think it looks interesting. I'll have a browse of your site.
- Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:18 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Perfection
- Replies: 241
- Views: 95089
Identity is the concept that refers to this aspect of existence; the aspect of existing as something in particular, with specific characteristics. An entity without an identity cannot exist because it would be nothing. To exist is to exist as something, and that means to exist with a particular ide...
- Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:57 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Quantum
- Replies: 47
- Views: 20856
Re: Quantum
The script often contradicts itself from one sentence to the next. For example, one moment they are saying "Quantum physics is all about possibilities", and the very next moment they have someone saying that certain things really can be at several different places at the same time. I don't get it, ...
- Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:41 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Terrorism
- Replies: 44
- Views: 21098
This reminds me of David Gilmour from Pink Floyd who recently sold his collection of Ferraris and donated a million dollars to a new accommodation center in London for 400 homeless people. He said that having the Ferraris meant you needed to pay people to look after them, buildings to keep them in,...
- Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:40 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Quantum
- Replies: 47
- Views: 20856
Multiple selves
There is also the question of why a sage would want to bifuricate into two positions in the first place. Does he want to join the circus or something? - And why stop at being in two places at the same time. If you can do that, you should be able to spawn an infinite number of selves all over the Un...