Holy Crap He's an Idiot
April 23, 2014 at 9:16 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2014 at 9:17 pm by Rampant.A.I..)
(April 23, 2014 at 6:13 pm)Cato Wrote: Heywood,
It's impossible for me to accept that you were just role playing for Pinser's edification when you immediately continue to float the notion that innumerable measured events/conditions aren't really constant, but rather just a large collection of chance occurrences that just happen to arrive at the same value every time.
I believe the constants of nature are indeed constant. That belief is one of faith because it is possible a constant could just be a large collection of chance occurrences that just happen to arrive at the same value every time.[/quote]
This kind of thinking gets you nowhere. If something is observable and demonstrably arrives at the same conclusion every time it is tested, this is not faith. It's an empirically supported justified true belief.
It's possible it could be shown to be mistaken at some levels, like we have in quantum physics. But rejecting reasonable beliefs about the world in favor of "When I wake up tomorrow the sun will probably be blue, but I have faith that it will be yellow" requires much more support than "I have reason than "the sun looks yellow in the sky today, it has for the last x years, it probably will tomorrow."
(April 23, 2014 at 6:43 pm)Heywood Wrote: If Hugh Everett's Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is true....there exist a world were every six sided die always lands on 2. In that world...dice rolls are constant.
And yet in our observable universe, dice rolls are not constant, and it is not reasonable to expect then to be, or express faith that they will be because we want to roll a two.
