stgiordanobruno wrote:
That may be your intuition but it is hopelessly paradoxical. But if you never exist then you would be in the paradoxical situation where all time will subjectively come to an end, even googolplex years into the future.
Below is a syllogism which shows just how paradoxical your hypothesis is:
Major premise: Any future existence after any given point of time after our death is impossible because the laws of physics forbid it.
Minor premise: The laws of physics before our birth and after our death are both identical, that is an empirical fact.
Conclusion: So any future existence after any given point of time before our birth would be also impossible.
Go figure.
I realize you are responding to ruveyn whose habit is it utter dogmatic materialism chiding any deviatonists and then cling to his whole inflexible agenda.
But still, I cannot see what you are driving at here.
Major premise : The laws of physics do not forbid post mortem subjective experience [generally the body still exists after death]; rather we do not know laws of physics which allow for such experience.
Minor premise: How can it be empirical fact, when we do not know all and only the laws of physics at any time? We have failed to detect any changes in the laws of physics.so far, other than discovering new one and modifying old ones. But there could be important laws of physics - ones we ghave not got to yet - that are changing as I write this.
Conclusion: I suspect youi are being cute, but even so - The laws operating the universe at least in this sector are dircetional. Things done cannot be undone. I cannot see the vulture scene backwards, or unsee it. Existence that is impossible at one end of the curve is not thereby ruled out at the other end. To use a famous example, a man cannot return to his mother's womb to be born again. But that does not preclude his being born in the first placve.
31 Jul 2011, 9:02 am
