Re: WHY DOES ANYTHING EXIST

From: Russell Standish <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 11:11:04 +1000

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 02:13:00AM +0100, David Pearce wrote:
>
> If the totality of the multiverse must sum to zero, then this must include
> consciousness. But this sounds bizarre - and perhaps unintelligible. How
> could all our pains and pleasures, our sensory experiences etc "cancel out"
> to zero?

Nobody has claimed that the sum of all conscious states sum to
zero. The only I see around abouts is that the sum of conscious _and_
unconscious states is zero.

Cheers

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