Re: Let There Be Something

From: <daddycaylor.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:24:51 -0400

If we are leaving all rationality aside, then how can be talk about
relative absurdity and justification?

Tom Caylor

-----Original Message-----
From: Quentin Anciaux <quentin.anciaux.domain.name.hidden>
To: everything-list.domain.name.hidden
Sent: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:59:10 +0200
Subject: Re: Let There Be Something

Hi,

yes it sounds like blind faith, but I can't see either any rationnality
in the
faith that not everything exists... If not everything exists then the
reality
is more absurd... How a justification for only a small part of
possibilities
(and only this one) could be found ?

Quentin

Le Vendredi 28 Octobre 2005 18:33, daddycaylor.domain.name.hidden a écrit :
> I guess I'll "break the symmetry" of relative silence on this list
> lately.
>
> I just don't get how it can be rationally justified that you can get
> something out of nothing. To me, combining the multiverse with a
> selection principle does not explain anything. I see no reason why it
> is not mathematically equivalent to our universe appearing out of
> nothing. And I see the belief that our universe appeared out of
> nothing as just that, a belief. In fact, I believe that. But I don't
> see how it makes one iota more rational, "scientific" sense to try to
> explain it with a Plenitude and the Anthropic Principle. It's like a
> probability argument that poses the existence of as much unobservable
> stuff out there as we need, along with the well-behaved unobservable
> probability distribution we need, in order to give us a fuzzy feeling
> in terms of probability as we know it in our comfortable immediate
> surroundings. Sounds like blind faith to me.
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