Rabbit Wrote:How could we ever know? IOW, can this be made into a falsifiable statement? Is it not falsified already by the fact that there is a whole lot of mathematics that does not in any way apply to reality?
Quote:How could we ever know? IOW, can this be made into a falsifiable statement? Is it not falsified already by the fact that there is a whole lot of mathematics that does not in any way apply to reality?
It can only be made into a falsifiable statement if the illogical is physically possible... otherwise the math should lead to the correct version of reality. While we can't prove logic, we have observed that it has worked amazingly well thus far in every application/
Quote:But if we are to guess, to fabulate away, we're not better of than the supernaturalists.It may all be a ridiculous coincidence... but it is certainly better to go off of than a lack of any positive data to support it
Further, logic has formed the basis of all of our science, which can be demonstrated to work well enough to have given us computers and the like... supernaturalists have given us remarkably little positive things.I'll leave the last paragraph for someone better suited to discuss it :S I myself wasn't aware that atoms were symmetrical except perhaps briefly (electrons). But again, i have little knowledge of any such symmetry or lack of such, thus can't adequately respond to it :S I honestly don't see why symmetry would be necessary for stability... or why "stability" would even be necessary in the universe.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
