Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 8:30 am
seeds wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2024 8:26 pmNo, no, no, "will bouwman," haven't you figured out the rules of this game yet?
I know it looks torturous but, as Bill Murray said, 'It's hard to win an argument with a smart person...' So it's a bit of a challenge. As I keep saying, philosophy is basically story telling and the aim of rationalist/analytic thinkers is to establish some firm premise on which to base their story.
AND, as I keep POINTING OUT here, if you, REALLY, want to PROVE your CLAIM or BELIEF, here, then START by DEFINING the 'Universe' word.
To ESTABLISH A FIRM PREMISE here is to START by DEFINING the words you are USING, EXACTLY. And, OBVIOUSLY, since 'THIS INTERPRETATION' of yours here is more or less about the 'Universe', Itself, then ESTABLISHING A FIRM PREMISE would be by DEFINING the VERY Thing that you ARE INTERPRETING.
But, since you have FAILED TO DO THIS on EVERY occasion I have just ASKED you to, then this is WHY you keep FAILING, ABSOLUTELY, to 'establish some firm premise', on which to base 'your story', here. AGAIN, as I keep saying, and pointing out.
Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 8:30 am
The only people who have achieved this (here he goes again) are Parmenides and Descartes. Neither of them managed to find a second premise as firm as the first to create the irrefutable argument they were hoping to develop.
And, this is BECAUSE they, like the rest of you human beings, up to when this is being written, did NOT 'look at', 'into', nor 'study' the VERY thing, from which ALL here is 'coming from', exactly.
The ONLY thing, EVER, that can be PROVED, and thus KNOWN, is that 'thought', itself, exists.
Therefore, there is some 'thing'.
Now, HOW to, ACTUALLY, distinguish between 'the Truth' of 'things', from, 'the Falsehoods, from here on, I have ALREADY EXPLAINED numerous times, ALREADY.
And, those who USE 'intelligence', INSTEAD OF 'ape-thinking', will have SEEN, RECOGNIZED, and REMEMBERED, what I have EXPLAINED here, ALREADY.
Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 8:30 am
Instead, what people generally do is start with an unfalsifiable premise, for instance 'The almighty, but invisible god(s) I believe in exist(s)'.
Or, there is the OTHER BELIEF that some have and start with, which is; 'the big bang created everything'.
It is like 'those' on "each side" here are as STUPID as each other. "one side" is 'God' created, or was the start of, everything, AND, the "other side" is, and believes and claims that 'the big bang" created, or was the start of, everything. "each side", again, is BELIEVING some thing BEFORE they have even OBTAINED the ACTUAL Truth and the ACTUAL PROOF for 'their BELIEF'.
Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 8:30 am
Smart people understand that the foundation of their philosophy might be wrong.
What "will bouwman" is 'trying to do' here, again, is place "itself" in the 'smart people' category, and on "this side", which, to "will bouwman", are the ones who BELIEVE that the Universe is expanding and began at and with a 'big bang'. As being NOT on "the side" of the 'other people'.
That the Universe is NOT expanding, was NOT smaller, and did NOT begin is an ALREADY PROVED Fact. So, ANY claim that the Universe 'began' either by some 'God' or some 'big bang' is NOT just a 'might be wrong', but is 'A Wrong'.
Also, some people understand that the foundation of 'philosophy', itself, is just having CURIOSITY, itself, and thus just having an internal constant 'love-of-learning', of more and anew.
By the way, and another clarifying question, WHY even have a so-called 'your own philosophy' that might be wrong from the outset anyway?'
Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 8:30 am
Stupid people think that because their initial premise is unfalsifiable, any logically valid argument based on it is true.
What happens WHEN the 'initial premise' is UNFALISIABLE, like, for example, 'Some thing exists', then is any logically valid argument based on it, true?
Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 8:30 am
Age's irrefutable premise is that the universe is infinite and eternal.
And it so BECAUSE I had ALREADY OBTAINED the IRREFUTABLE PROOF for 'that premise', PREVIOUSLY.
Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 8:30 am
We currently have no way of telling whether that is true,
Do you have A WAY of telling whether the earth is flat, or not, whether the sun revolves around the earth, or the other way around, or whether the earth is at the center of the Universe, or it is not?
If yes, then what you are saying and claiming here is like if 'the ones' who BELIEVED and CLAIMED that the sun revolves around the and/or that the earth is at the center of the Universe, and they would also 'TRY TO' claim that 'that one's irrefutable premise' is that 'The earth revolves around the sun', and, 'We currently have no way of telling whether that is true'.
AGAIN, 'back in the olden days', when this was being written, a lot of the adult human population ACTED and MIS/BEHAVED just like adult human beings previous to them did. And, who 'they' classed and considered lived in 'olden days', as well.
Saying and claiming that there is NO WAY, AT ALL, of telling whether the Universe is infinite and eternal, or not, is EXACTLY LIKE saying and claiming that there is NO WAY, AT ALL, of telling whether the earth is flat, or not, or whether the sun revolves around the earth, or not.
AGAIN, ALL of these people, 'back then', in the 'olden days', would 'look at' and 'see' things FROM their OWN BELIEFS and PRESUMPTIONS, and thus very LIMITED perspective, more so than 'look at' and 'see' things from the Truly OPEN perspective.
Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 8:30 am
and probably never will.
So, what is 'it' "will bouwman".
Is there NO WAY, AT ALL, of telling?
Or, there is PROBABLY NO WAY of telling?
Show, and reveal, to 'us', here, just how CLOSED, or OPEN, a human being you REALLY ARE/WERE "will bouwman", in the days when this is/was being written.
To you, is there ABSOLUTELY NO WAY, PROBABLY NO WAY, MAYBE A WAY, or A WAY, but which 'we' of 'these days' have just NOT YET LEARNED of and about, of telling if the Universe is infinite and eternal, or not?
Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 8:30 am
Whether or not the visible universe is the entire universe, as in 'everything that exists', the visible universe is visibly expanding,
OBVIOUSLY the 'visible universe' is NOT the 'entire Universe', in the days when this is being written, exactly like the 'visible universe' at all stages of previous human being's evolution was NOT the 'entire Universe'. OBVIOUSLY, 'the size' of the 'visible universe' 'grows and expands' with the 'growth and expansion' of 'the technology' that you human beings USE to 'look at' and 'see' things, that is; the Universe, Itself.
And, to think or believe that the 'visible universe', or 'ALL that can be seen', by you human beings, at any particular moment of human being growth and evolution, is 'all-there-is' or 'everything that exists', is just ANOTHER SIGN and FURTHER PROOF of the 'human ego' at work, and at play, here.
Also, OBVIOUSLY, the 'visible universe' is, visibly, expanding. This is just because of what just 'actually happened'.
Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 8:30 am
but I don't need to tell you that, because you know how to process scientific data.
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These older human beings are REALLY FUNNY.
EVERY one of them BELIEVES that they 'each' 'know how to' 'process scientific data'. And the FUNNIEST PART here is that even when two of them have COMPLETELY OPPOSING VIEWS and/or BELIEFS, like "will bouwman" and "immanuel can" they both, LAUGHINGLY, BELIEVE, and CLAIM, that it is 'them' 'each', who know 'how to process the scientific data'.
LOL Even the one "will bouwman" is responding to here has 'processed' the 'scientific data' COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from what "will bouwman" has.
These ones, STILL, have NOT YET MANAGED to COMPREHEND and UNDERSTAND that 'each of them' is just MISINTERPRETING 'the data', and are just 'trying to' 'fit' 'the data' in and with their own 'currently' held onto views, beliefs, and presumptions.
ALL of them here just have 'confirmation bias', which ALWAYS exists while one holds a view, belief, or presumption from some thing of which they have NOT YET OBTAINED ACTUAL PROOF FOR. And so they are all just 'processing', or interpreting', 'the data', 'based' and 'biased' upon, the 'current' view, belief, and/or presumption, within.
As HOW the Mind and the brain ACTUALLY WORK WILL SHOW and PROVE True.