tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post5382558187730255062..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Do I exist?Sabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-39049341635896866902019-11-09T08:59:29.782-05:002019-11-09T08:59:29.782-05:00After read this post, and the first one about the ...After read this post, and the first one about the existence of higgs-boson, i think the problem is ms. Sabrina makes a strict statement that science is not about belief. <br /><br />We do science every time everyday, and it is about belief. If we get trouble, any trouble, we make a theory/model to explain it and make some experiment or observation or calculation to check if it is true. Our beliefjack separohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12257076696646564496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-44123142484947732222019-07-11T19:25:02.182-04:002019-07-11T19:25:02.182-04:00Using your description, omnipotent, omnipresent, o...Using your description, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient and may we add omnibenevolent, it is mathematically impossible for God not to exist.<br /><br /><br />First if we consider the universe a system made up of billions and billions of smaller systems such as planets, stars, solar systems, galaxies and etc. then the description that the total potential energy of any system plus the total Lumina Celeritas aka Frank Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16519249596090186765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-75316119391852936302019-07-10T09:44:50.715-04:002019-07-10T09:44:50.715-04:00I have seen some of your videos. I am confident t...I have seen some of your videos. I am confident that you exist. (Much like, "I blog, therefore I am.")Douglas J. Benderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18018142760167045965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-31927753071805299122019-06-20T04:21:34.749-04:002019-06-20T04:21:34.749-04:00(p → □p) or "p is True/False implies that it&... (p → □p) or "p is True/False implies that it's necessary that p is True/False" is an axiom of Modal logic necessary to be consistent. Without this axiom the Modal logic is inconsistent. Translation God existence is necessary by logical consistency. Of course in an irrational inconsistent world God existence is not necessary but it is really the case? the answer is "of course G Harmandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06831232686070504655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-23737719335291995542019-06-19T22:26:57.561-04:002019-06-19T22:26:57.561-04:00Couldn't existence be relative? A binary rela...Couldn't existence be relative? A binary relation rather than unary? E.g. the characters in a novel are real w.r.t. each other but not w.r.t. the reader; and the reader is real w.r.t. the world we live in, but not w.r.t. the Creator, i.e. simulation runner; who in turn is not real w.r.t. the creator of the simulation _he_ appears in.Andrew Dabrowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14194210589133048249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-17997928466490192732019-06-08T07:56:46.768-04:002019-06-08T07:56:46.768-04:00Sometimes a missed nuance gnaws at me ‘til I addre...Sometimes a missed nuance gnaws at me ‘til I address it: where I said “will be,” it’d’ve been better to have said “will have been.” (Also “guilded” not “gilded” to carry intended meaning, which surely I wrote the way I wanted it but apparently the dumb spell-checker decided otherwise.)Emmette Davidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15566381168125492666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-19938632039435951832019-06-02T05:51:01.516-04:002019-06-02T05:51:01.516-04:00Does God exist? Yes, he is basically the space of ...Does God exist? Yes, he is basically the space of MOUs, of Models of a Universe. This space embeds mathematics (all-math) too, but mathematics is not an entity there; mathematics is overall there.<br /><br />So: God exists => Math exists.<br /><br />Additionally, God has the possibility to "materialize" a MOU, in fact to draw a model from a MOU. But the MOU is needed in the first Sixtehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11403777924261665599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-4493333989926654002019-06-02T05:39:02.969-04:002019-06-02T05:39:02.969-04:00For Apes, God exist and non exist at the same time...For Apes, God exist and non exist at the same time ... <br /><br />As an Ant can not grasp and/or become aware about a Human's Phenomenology ... Human's Existential Spectrum can not grasp and/or become aware of God's Phenomenology ... <br /><br />Therefore, For Apes, God exist as a Non-Existent Entities ... <br /><br />If Apes wants to know God, then, They must to renounce to be, ApesFirst Name Surnamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10755168598909940991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-82843058145674525642019-06-01T07:17:14.098-04:002019-06-01T07:17:14.098-04:00Lawrence Crowell: Has Quantum Mechanics existed fo...Lawrence Crowell: Has Quantum Mechanics existed forever? Doesn't it depend on time passing? Has Time existed forever?<br /><br />I find it mind boggling to envision any state has existed <i>forever;</i> that there is always an infinite count of previous hours.<br /><br />I also find it mind boggling that Time began; the very words are paradoxical to me, because "began" implies Dr. A.M. Castaldohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17988116835722393503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-48673011821648389862019-05-31T14:19:34.083-04:002019-05-31T14:19:34.083-04:00"Not finding evidence for something is NEVER ..."Not finding evidence for something is NEVER “proof” of its non-existence" and then there is the fact that you can only move from Known to Known and never to the Unknown. Unkown comes into known only through Intution, that is when the mind ceases to funtion out of Known(memory). In otherwords the only form of inquiry that can bring one to this state is through negation (or a form of Chandiranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03456524072997067445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-51087638717794338422019-05-31T05:21:44.536-04:002019-05-31T05:21:44.536-04:00Were not wandering gods Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupi...Were not wandering gods Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn useful? Particularly to explain the overly complex periodicity (epicycles) of their retrograde tendencies? The ancients were truly ingenious to pass down such concepts through embodied deities. Similarly the seemingly uncanny ability of scribes to predict Apollo/Artemis eclipses; surely priests made such gilded knowledge useful, to Emmette Davidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15566381168125492666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-40878854022251203502019-05-30T20:02:06.610-04:002019-05-30T20:02:06.610-04:00Count Iblis wrote: This is why so many people are ...Count Iblis wrote: This is why so many people are attracted to religion and believe in God.<br /><br />I think it has more to do with indoctrination than "attraction" per se. If you consider human history and all the weird things people have been "attracted" to, it can't be explained by attraction alone. <br /><br />Religion and God are not universally "attractive.&Steven Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05140374687362624448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-16932963477312623332019-05-30T16:38:35.389-04:002019-05-30T16:38:35.389-04:00God is the white color in your mind.God is the white color in your mind.Albert Zotkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02745604087015640780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-8706092711917799942019-05-30T05:41:19.292-04:002019-05-30T05:41:19.292-04:00The brain we have has been shaped by evolution to ...The brain we have has been shaped by evolution to deal with social relations. The concepts needed to describe events within a social groups are ultimately emergent quantities, because ultimately everything is reducible to basic physics, but for our brain it is good enough to stick to using those high level concepts.<br /><br />This means that we experience the World as if it has an exact high Count Iblishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17234653545597441999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-83697229979913973082019-05-30T04:31:13.655-04:002019-05-30T04:31:13.655-04:00Does God exist?
Karl Popper famously said about t...Does God exist?<br /><br />Karl Popper famously said about the new "science" of psychoanalysis that "a theory that can explain everything explains nothing." Anything people said or did was compatible with psychoanalytic theory. <br /><br />Over the course of human history, all the thousands of gods could explain everything, and anything that happened or didn't happen was Steven Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05140374687362624448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-52140963931119688802019-05-29T04:04:31.231-04:002019-05-29T04:04:31.231-04:00Hi Sabine !!!
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Ich wieB nicht Wo ich anf...Hi Sabine !!!<br /> again<br /> Ich wieB nicht Wo ich anfangen<br /> soll.<br /> - first, to 'infer' the existence of Anything from data alone - does not ' prove' it's existence. This is also<br /> 'how science works'.<br /><br /> secondly,as a reminder,<br /> the most popular teachers..<br /> - give the least homework. lol<br /> that being said,<br /> A.C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08901144737333895284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-87947094000181899532019-05-28T23:48:58.905-04:002019-05-28T23:48:58.905-04:00Existence is too broad a concept. I think you are ...Existence is too broad a concept. I think you are right when you say, "Something exists if it is useful to explain observations.", but it is more useful than that. In essence, existence is an artifact of how we think. At one level, existence is about sensory input. At another level, it is about physical form. In every case, the anchor is the human mind.<br /><br />For example, I believeKaleberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283840743310507878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-55248085619036052872019-05-28T21:16:11.235-04:002019-05-28T21:16:11.235-04:00"Does God exist?"
The term "Sabin..."Does God exist?" <br /><br />The term "Sabine Hossenfelder" is well-defined, at least by my reckoning, and phenomena attributed to "Sabine Hossenfelder" are consistent with phenomena commonly attributed to other similar entities.<br /><br />Therefore, I can with some confidence accept that the entity denoted by "Sabine Hossenfelder" exists.<br /><br />The Fil Salustrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-34360576439325568222019-05-28T18:15:34.078-04:002019-05-28T18:15:34.078-04:00Here an attempt a a definition: God is a Being tha...Here an attempt a a definition: God is a Being that is acting goal-oriented and that created our Universe.<br /><br />Religions will add special aspects and characteristics to that definition, but I think that this definition is compatible with all deistic religions. Do you agree?<br /><br />By this definition, God is existing independently of our Universe. Thus, by definition, we cannot design AndreasKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13708179919306720128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-3042818163659524392019-05-28T14:37:23.163-04:002019-05-28T14:37:23.163-04:00"Having settled this, here is the next homewo..."Having settled this, here is the next homework assignment: Does God exist? Let me know what you think. "<br /><br />Bee, <br /><br />how can mathematical theoretical physicists go about answering this question, using a mathematical theoretical physics approach?<br /><br />i have in mind deism. what sort of mathematical physics theorem implies God, and could such a theorem be proved neohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16769182614452171312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-47758379866988400512019-05-28T13:18:31.631-04:002019-05-28T13:18:31.631-04:00 This however raises the question whether by senso... This however raises the question whether by sensory input you mean something that is coming to your brain or to things that you observe from the perceived horizon to the dome of the sky. <br /><br />The problem is that the latter is the construction of your brain and you do not have access to the signals that are comping into your brain.<br /><br />In general you positions is similar to Evgenii Rudnyihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01535547902638172794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-47019180015415102622019-05-28T12:18:30.378-04:002019-05-28T12:18:30.378-04:00CIP,
Excellent, then that makes two of us who dis...CIP,<br /><br />Excellent, then that makes two of us who dislike arguing about the meaning of words. So let me simply add that what I mean by "explanation" has nothing to do with "what I approve of", but I concretely mean a simplification over just collecting data, which is at least in principle quantifiable. <br /><br />The standard model of particle physics, eg, is an Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-28945527478666845922019-05-28T11:27:55.082-04:002019-05-28T11:27:55.082-04:00One thing that I did learn in my first class of ph...One thing that I did learn in my first class of philosophy of science was that arguing about the meaning of words is a fruitless exercise. On the other hand, trying to discover what an interlocutor means when they use a word can clarify.<br /><br />I did learn that by "explanation" you meant "useful" and "scientific" explanations (the additional modifiers I CapitalistImperialistPighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17523405806602731435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-38586743113313997852019-05-28T09:39:29.986-04:002019-05-28T09:39:29.986-04:00Sadly, as I have gotten older I have come to belie...Sadly, as I have gotten older I have come to believe that the only meaningful philosophical system that satisfies what I observe is ethical nihlism.<br /><br />The existence of a "God" that is only involved with humanity seems meaningless if that same God created the universe. That meaninglessness incorporates the dilemma of understanding who created God if God created the universe.<br cpwegenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13940778590862882435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-26786232027640057702019-05-28T07:18:03.024-04:002019-05-28T07:18:03.024-04:00It seems more supportable to say that information ...It seems more supportable to say that information is all there is. It is certainly all that can be known. Matter, if distinct from energy, is clearly not a reductive cover, but even in the most expansive definition, the problem would remain that matter is not well understood, reductively - it's turtles all the way down, and infinite in all directions.aminorexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01504580022498773279noreply@blogger.com