Subj : Re: Possible Worlds To : Lee Lofaso From : John Wilson Date : Fri Nov 02 2001 04:28 pm -=> LEE LOFASO wrote to DAVE OLDRIDGE <=- LL> Suppose the majority of the world's population was autistic. How LL> would the views of the small minority of folks who are not LL> autistic be seen by the rest of the world's population? Would LL> the world of non-autistic folks be seen as a logically possible LL> world by those who are autistic? Would the views of non-autistic LL> folks even be understood by those who are autistic? Suppose the majority of the world's populaton was 80 times dimmer than ths Brilliant John Wilson. How would the views of John Wilson be seen by the rest of the world? How would the opinions of tha vast majority of folks be seen by the marvelous John Wilson? Mutual disrespect, I think. Thank goodness they leave me alone. >DO>(Or maybe it's only all possible entropically connected worlds, focus >DO>on a primordial beginning) . >LL>If there is a beginning, there must be an end. And if there is an end, >LL>such a world would no longer exist. DO>Why should a beginning imply an end? LL> There is a difference between immortality and eternity. For LL> something to be immortal, it must have a definite beginning but LL> no end. For something to be eternal, there can be no beginning LL> and no end. But man lives in a linear universe, his whole LL> understanding of nature being that everything has a definite LL> beginning and a definite end. DO>If entropy starts at zero it can still increase indefinitely. LL> Still, it would be finite. The universe itself is a finite LL> universe, having a definite beginning (The Big Bang) with a LL> definite end (The Big Collapse). IOW, it started with something LL> and it ends with something, everything remaining the same. No LL> energy is lost, but all energy is expended. How that something LL> got there to begin with is an open question, since if there was LL> nothing then there would have been no Big Bang. LL> Does the universe begin again once it has collapsed, only to LL> collapse again and start all over again and again and again et al LL> infinitum? If so, was there a beginning and will there be an end? LL> It still begs the question, since the original Big Bang would LL> have had to have something to begin the process. LL> Infinity. Such a complicated word... LL> --Lee LL> * SLMR 2.1a * Louisiana is a great place to live if you're an LL> alligator --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 LL> * Origin: Try Our Web Based QWK: DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:18/140) .... -*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-* ___ MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.32 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: The BandMaster, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (1:153/7715) .