Faith has no place demanding agreement or punishing disagreement.
NOTE: In the beginning thought experiment, the computer is not asking for general answers like 'space' or 'matter' that would appl...
Faith has no place demanding agreement or punishing disagreement.
NOTE: In the beginning thought experiment, the computer is not asking for general answers like 'space' or 'matter' that would apply to absolutely every possible permutation of objects in the cube. It is asking for specifics.
Apply the 'game show' criterion. If you were asked on a game show 'What's in the cube?' you know that 'space' and 'matter' would not cut it as answers.
Besides, if you do resort to answering with generalities that would apply to any conceivable contents of the cube, that simply illustrates my point: that specific answers can't be given.
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"its not whether we believe in gods but how we treat each other that says the most about our character"
"if you attack, condemn, or use emotional blackmail on people because they don't share your belief in one or more gods, you're invited to consider what that says about you, and how it squares with the values you claim to embrace"
@QualiaSoup that is true in this world, but what do you say to a dimension where something can be 'A' and 'not A' at the same time... actually you dont even have to go there to find an instance of that, what about the Schrödinger's cat? where something would exist in two different states at the same time.
"what do you say to a dimension where something can be 'A' and 'not A' at the same time"
That's begging the question, madnessdexter.
"what about the Schrödinger's cat?"
You are aware, I hope, that when Schrödinger was putting forward that scenario, it was as an *objection* to the absurdity of simultaneous 'A' and 'Not A'. Many people mistakenly think he was proposing an actual example. In fact, he was dismissing it.
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but how we treat each other
that says the most about our character"
"if you attack, condemn, or use emotional blackmail on people because they don't share your belief in one or more gods, you're invited to consider what that says about you, and how it squares with the values you claim to embrace"
brilliantly put! hear hear
it is the mayo that binds us..
That's begging the question, madnessdexter.
"what about the Schrödinger's cat?"
You are aware, I hope, that when Schrödinger was putting forward that scenario, it was as an *objection* to the absurdity of simultaneous 'A' and 'Not A'. Many people mistakenly think he was proposing an actual example. In fact, he was dismissing it.