RE: What is wrong with this premise?
January 18, 2015 at 4:49 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2015 at 4:50 pm by Darkstar.)
(January 18, 2015 at 4:25 pm)Heywood Wrote: A Harry Potter movie isn't just a configuration of atoms. It is also a configuration or words and ideas. But what I am saying is that a configuration itself is a thing. Three stones placed in a horizontal line is three stones placed in a horizontal line. Three stones piled one on top another is not three stones placed in a horizontal line.
This is semantically true, but we can still reduce any 'thing' down to an arrangement of the same few elementary particles. This premise generally implies something coming into being ex nihilo, though that doesn't seem to be what you're getting at here.
Does the creation of crude oil have a cause? How about crystal?
