Salutatio Mark!
22-Feb-98, Mark Bloss wrote to Richard Meic
Subject: "Existence Exists"
RM>> And THAT, my dear friend, is what I have been saying long ago
RM>> when I first brought up the thread the first time more then a
RM>> year ago. That the BB model is illogical. If the universe is
RM>> finite then there should *:NO:* infinities at all within the
RM>> universe; no mathematical infinities, no quantum mechanical
RM>> infinities, no infinitely divisible properties of matter, and no
RM>> infinitely circular religious arguments ;) (MAN, I'd love to
RM>> live in a universe like that ).
MB> For infinity to be an attribute of a _finite_ universe is
MB> logically impossible. _ANY_ infinity.
That's right.
MB> That is why God is not a
MB> subset of the Universe, rather the Universe is a subset of God. ;)
Whatever. ;)
MB> But _that_ is entirely beside the point, I assure you. A
MB> universe _without_ infinities would be totally foreign to us; so
MB> much so we would not recognize _anything_ existent in it - in fact
MB> - we wouldn't likely be able to consciously exist ourselves within
MB> the boundries of such a thing - should it have any - that is...
MB>
I agree, really. I looks like you started out disagreeing with me and
ended up saying exactly what I have been all along.
Dicere...
email address (vrmeic@spots.ab.ca)
Richard Meic
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