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Kharfa,
Thanks for your comment. In response,
o You seem to be asserting anti-realism and trying to arrive at a correct ontology using an Aristotelian application of deductive logic. Would you like some help with that?
I'm not denying the reality of anything that you can show me. Please show me where "2+2=4" is or where it exists. Using that type of argument that things like this exist is like saying Santa Claus exists. That's possible, but we can't prove it or disprove it, and you can't show him to me. There's no point in discussing it. And, by the way, I don't need any help with that. Patronizing attitudes especially when not backed up by sound reasoning are of no interest to me.
o there's good evidence that minds are made out of math, instead of the contrary position.
I believe there's good evidence that minds are in heads and are made out of matter and energy, not mathematics.
Hi. After reading your posting on the mathematical universe, my coments are:
The only way "2+2=4" can exist is if there are first two existent objects and then a mind to come up with the construct describing their addition. "2+2=4" doesn't exist on its own.
My own view for why there is "something" rather than "nothing" is:
There are two choices for why there is "something" rather than "nothing":
A. "Something" has always been here. B. "Something" hasn't always been here.
Choice A is possible but doesn't offer much explanatory power so it won't be
pursued here.
Going with choice B, if "something" hasn't always been here, then "nothing" must have beeen here
Amanojack,
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