OT - bored with gaming ? Get philosophy!

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Had a strange thought Last night. You've probably heard of the "many-worlds" hypothesis? That there are many possible universes, and that they all exist simultaneously? Well, what if every fundamental particle in our universe is actually a universe, and also every universe is a fundamental particle in some other universe? It's actually a closed system, except that it is recursive in a seemingly illogical way. A "multiverse" with N universes would have N-1 fundamental particles to use. Or, put the other way, if there are N particles in our universe, then that allows for N+1 universes in the "multiverse." That's a lot of universes!

Read "Wizard War" by Hugh Cook if I recall correctly. A green bottle and a red bottle posed a puzzle for a character. The controls for the bottles were rings around their necks. It took him a couple weeks to figure out how to get past a barred grill using the bottle he found on a desk in a library.
I would not care to attempt a rigorous physical description of creation. I think of it metaphorically as linked lists of data structures. Address pointers are information exchange operators. Data values range along a continuum in reference to "physical constants". The "laws of nature" are local rules entirely dependent on the local data structure.

For more food for thought look up *isms words. Then web search with them. Someone really should create a structured English dictionary that gets rid of this reverse Polish notation.....

[Atrocities]

I love philosophy. I used to spend a lot of time at work talking to another Philosophy buff. God I miss working with him.

I would say that God is well aware of all events in creation, from personal experience. In case there is some misconception here I am not God, nor do I speak directly to God, at least so far as I know. I use another old hackneyed cliche "Where There Is A Will, There Is A Way".

[Atrocities]

Amend brother. I can't agree more on everything you have said.

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"We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats! They invade our space and we fall back -- they assimilate entire worlds and we fall back! Not again! The line must be drawn here -- this far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!" -- Captain Picard STNG
New Age Ship Yards

One of the major reasons why I am not trusted, and should not be, is that I have difficulty making the distinction between "can" and "may, between "to" and "with", the list goes on and on. So paraphrase whatever I say if it makes you uncomfortable. Dictionaries that I access are either unreliable or crash the net link I use when I access words. Many links I access, including those which are hyperlinks result in failure to access or once again crash the net link....

Upon consideration, the problem is likely that the lists of *onyms I have conceptualized do not agree with common usage. I am fortunate in this regard because this means I am indifferent to attacks which presume I know what is occurring. For example I experienced a mild prickling while reading at one site and finally realized with a laugh that the owner thought that I thought that I was "Superman" and was attempting to attack using "green kryptonite".