tags: metaphysics

2008

August

2008 Aug 9

what is "real"?

One of the books I'm currently reading is A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein by Palle Yourgrau. Essentially, it concerns Gödel's conclusion that the Theory of Relativity naturally leads to a universe where time isn't real. I also started The End of Time by Julian Barbour, who comes up with a similar conclusion, though his formulation is much more recent, and in the few pages that I have read, he necessarily bases his ideas partly on the way that the brain processes information (without actually going into the messy neuroanatomically and neuromolecular details.)

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2008 Aug 10

positivism and God in the gaps

I know that this stance has been refuted a long time ago, but I can't help but enjoy the delightful symmetry of it.

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2016

January

2016 Jan 18

Infinite Redemption

I would never say that anyone is completely irredeemable, but we are creatures of finite life spans and have to be practical about time scales.

2016 Jan 26

Not All Knowledge is Science

Ethan Siegel points out the obvious that science is not the only form of knowledge and that non-science clearly has value.

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