Re:Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?
by mensetmanusman on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:58PM
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You allude to a physical universe which has some properties though (laws).
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Re:Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?
by mbrodersen on Saturday October 16, 2021 @08:59PM
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“Laws” are human constructs. Mental models of how we think the universe works. Models might be useful but they are not reality.
Re:Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?
by mensetmanusman on Sunday October 17, 2021 @09:35AM
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Well things happening the same way everywhere is a sort of medium with rules.
Although, some would argue the universe would cease to exist without humans to observe it (and initiate collapse :))
Re:Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?
by mbrodersen on Sunday October 17, 2021 @05:48PM
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We don’t know if things happen the same way everywhere. We also don’t even know what “everywhere” is. However we have mental models/laws that seems to approximate what our senses tell us in certain limited contexts. That makes the models useful.
Re:Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?
by mensetmanusman on Monday October 18, 2021 @10:04AM
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True, we don’t agree on what everywhere means. I guess I was confining myself to the observable limits of spacetime. Outside of that, who knows :)