[MD] Natural or supernatural?

[gav]

if i may gentlemen,

david m said:

> Hi DMB
> 
> Let's go back to basics. What is the possible? Let's
> take an
> unusually simple example. Let's roll a dice. Whilst
> it rolls it
> does not have a meaningful role in our little game,
> where we
> decide how many squares we can move. We know it has
> 6
> possibilities, and we are waiting for these six
> possibilities to
> become a single actuality. The dice stops with one
> side facing
> up. What were six possibilities have turned into one
> actuality.
> Five of the possibilities (for this particular roll)
> have been lost
> for ever.

the dice couldn't have been anything other than what
it was. you can't step into the same river twice.
 
 
> What I am suggesting is that the idea of the
> transcendental
> really came out of the reality of such
> possibilities, their
> reduction into a actuality that is always a
> reduction, a subset,
> of the possible, and the loss of most possibilities
> that is built
> into the very being of what is actual.

i disagree. the transcendental is obviously about
dental transplants or dancing dentures; i forget
which.
seriously though though the transcendental is more to
do with an umanifest realm of *meaning*, not
possibility.


> > 
> Or again, this actual world is only one of a vast
> range of
> possible worlds. The point of freedom is surely to
> choose
> a future that occupies one of the better rather than
> one of
> the awful possible future worlds.

choice is based on quality

> 
> I do wonder what an MOQer means by the law of
> physics.
> This is a suspect notion form an MOQer and is
> suspect at
> the current edge of physics as we currently know it.
> 
> Laws, bad metaphor, implies a law giver you big
> theist you.
> 
> For me the MOQ notion of DQ implies pattern forming
> capacities that are creative and therefore not rule
> bound,
> its onlyyou mechanists that get bogged down with
> these laws.

dave wasn't suggesting the rule of any law; you
naughty thingo you




		
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