mykola 🙃🌎🤘Apr 25, 2017

So, I see the whole universe as a function. Its input is its own prior state, its output is its own next state. It cycles in Planck time.

Its logic is described by math implemented in physics, which in turn decomposes into biology and cognition and even, sometimes, software.

But there's really just the one big function. An infinite relation between everything and everything else, over time, forever.

This is kinda my religious belief, I guess? It compels no particular behavior.

Show threaddeoh can be strange sometimesApr 25, 2017

@mykola It's your cosmological belief.

Also, it seems similar to occasionalism, I guess.

Show threadmykola 🙃🌎🤘Apr 25, 2017
@deoh I guess so though I don't ascribe agency to this function. Its entire logic is informed by the rules of the system.
Show threaddeoh can be strange sometimesApr 25, 2017
@mykola Then what made the rules of the function?
Show threadmykola 🙃🌎🤘Apr 25, 2017
@deoh what made physics? I have no idea. Some physicists think that they're caused by the way the universe cooled as it was created, I guess?
Show threaddeoh can be strange sometimesApr 25, 2017
@mykola But the universe only cooled because it obeyed certain rules in the first place. If this function *is* the way the universe operates then it must be prior to that
Show threadmykola 🙃🌎🤘
@deoh Maybe, maybe there are infinite universes as different parts of the initial cooling medium cooled differently. Certainly we'd have very little access to any kind of knowledge about that sort of thing, right?
Apr 25, 2017 at 3:11pmWeb
Show threaddeoh can be strange sometimesApr 25, 2017

@mykola If they cooled differently there must be a cause for it. If they cooled at all that's still the result of some rule of some sort.

And sure, we have little access to knowledge in those things, but that never stopped philosophical speculation and argumentation. 😛

Show threadmykola 🙃🌎🤘Apr 25, 2017

@deoh it does for me, dude, I like Kant's thought that some things are just unknowable fundamentally and that we oughtn't waste too much time worrying about them.

I'll leave that to the scientists who may one day give us another inch of answers, or may not.

For now I'm happy with my modeling exercise.