(July 6, 2016 at 2:54 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(July 5, 2016 at 2:50 pm)Ignorant Wrote: 3) Empirical evidence (EE):
a) Some things exist on the condition that other thing(s) simultaneously exist. (e.g. I exist on the condition that a certain ordering and configuration of human cells also exist simultaneously with 'me', and the 'ordering and configuration' of those cells exist on the condition that a certain amount and quality of cells exist simultaneously with the 'ordering and configuration', and the 'certain amount and quality of those cells' exist on the condition that a certain ordering and configuration of molecules exist simultaneously with the 'amount and quality of those cells', etc.)
These things don't 'exist' simultaneously. We can have different conceptions of things simultaneously, but conceptions aren't existents. The rest doesn't follow because your empirical evidence is not valid.
Consider an example:
Am I existing simultaneously with your existence? Yes. Is carbon existing simultaneously with both our existences? Yes. Does your existing depend on my simultaneous existing? No. Does carbon depend on either yours or my or both our existing? No. Does both our existing depend on carbon's simultaneous existing? Yes. If in one moment, carbon ceased existing, then both you and I, in the exact same moment, would also cease existing. We exist on the condition that carbon simultaneously exists.