Re: How can there be anything?
- From: The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:18:47 -0800
In sci.physics, Calvin
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wrote
on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:51:44 -0800 (PST)
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We know that something is.
Actually, we do not; look up "solipsism". In any event,
you are working in the more or less metaphysical realm;
the fact is that we can interact. That is being, or
close enough thereto that we needn't worry about whether
we actually are, or whether we merely think we are and we
are not, from an operational standpoint.
In short: I throw a ball. I can hear it hit the side of
a building. I do not know if others can hear it hit that
building but presume a priori that it is at least possible.
Even if it is other that what it
appears to be, it still is. But how can anything be? Wouldn't
it be more natural for there to be nothing? Yet something is;
of that, if nothing else, we are sure.
People take it for granted that something is; but really,
shouldn't we be in a constant state of amazement that there
is anything?
This is not a religious question. Whether God is, or God is
not, is irrelevant. In either case, something is, and how can
that be?
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