Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · archive0.790

   The first epistemological level might relate to the regions of spacetime that are currently unobservable due to the expansion of the universe and the finite speed of light. The concept of the Hubble volume, which represents everything currently visible from Earth, illustrates this limitation +. If space is infinite, as some observations of the cosmic microwave background suggest °, then there must be an infinite number of Hubble volumes, each with potentially different histories, though obeying the same effective laws of physics ?. This level resembles Tegmark's Level |, the quilted multiverse…

   archive/ThesisTOEdll/00- Quantum Cosmology : An Epistemological and Ontological Perspective on Quantum Cosmology and Levels of the Multiverse (rev0)_djvu.txt

2. 02 · yt0.781

   We're not not for example one might say well you you've gotten yourself in a logical bind. You assume the truth of your assumptions and then you prove that they're not deeply true. what you what you shot yourself in the foot. And and Girdle didn't assume the truth of the axioms. He only assumed that they were consistent. And that's what all we have to do in our scientific theories. We assume the consistency of our assumptions. We don't have to we we don't have to assume that they're true. In fact, I would say the the the right scientific attitude is to assume these are probably not true. They'…

   yt/J--0hk89hmU-breakthrough-how-consciousness-creates-the-simulation-dr-don/transcript.txt

3. 03 · yt0.781

   there are no loopholes left so now your option is the following either you acknowledge that there is no physical realism in other words that physical things are not out there until you measure them until you look at them they don't exist as physical things until you measure or you have to believe that at every planck scale of time which is unimaginably small a centos second is much much much bigger than the age of the universe compared to planck time so you have to you have to believe that at every plank time a near infinitude of new physical universes pop into existence which is probably the …

   yt/c6igdqUZ6kM-metaphysical-idealism-dr-bernado-kastrup-interview/transcript.txt

4. 04 · blog0.780

   It is very unlikely that a universe would exist uncaused, but rather more likely that God would exist uncaused. The existence of the universe…can be made comprehensible if we suppose that it is brought about by God. (Swinburne 1979: 131–32) In short, in contrast to the first half of the last century, contemporary philosophers contribute increasingly detailed, complex, and sophisticated arguments on both sides of the debate, some connected to natural theology, many others unconnected but important for their philosophically complex and subtle reasoning. 2. Typology of Cosmological Arguments Phil…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/cosmological-argument.md

5. 05 · yt0.780

   When I take that basic cognitive framework, which is this very dynamic, bottom-up, top-down way in which outside and grounding propositionality, which intelligibility is co-created with the world, I come to the conclusion that either that bottom-up, top-down dynamism is has nothing to do with ontological structure, in case in which in which case if there is no way in which that fundamental grammar of intelligibility creation touches the structure of ontology, then we're doomed to skepticism and solipsism. And so I propose that it's more likely, as the Neoplatonic tradition held, that reality i…

   yt/QvLSkzes_II-convergence-to-neoplatonism-w-wolfgang-smith/transcript.txt

6. 06 · blog0.779

   Every physical object is unique under some description,… yet all objects within the universe are characterized by certain properties, which are common to more than one object.… The objection fails to make any crucial distinction between the universe and other objects; and so it fails in its attempt to prevent at the outset a rational inquiry into the issue of whether the universe has some origin outside itself. (Swinburne 2004: 134–35) We do not need to experience every possible referent of the class of contingent things to be able to conclude that a contingent thing needs a cause. “To know th…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/cosmological-argument.md

7. 07 · archive0.777

   a physically real description of the universe evolving deterministically according to the Schrodinger equation ®. Our perception of a single outcome is explained by the fact that we are “entangled” with a particular branch of the universe, without having access to the others. This level corresponds to Tegmark's Level III, the quantum multiverse. This level represents a problem of redundant universes where, in Tegmark's model and in the epistemological vision of the present model, the parallel universes of MWI are identical to the universes of Levels | and II, but independent of each other.

   archive/ThesisTOEdll/00- Quantum Cosmology : An Epistemological and Ontological Perspective on Quantum Cosmology and Levels of the Multiverse (rev0)_djvu.txt

8. 08 · blog0.776

   For example, the argument that since all the bricks in the wall are small, the wall is small, is fallacious. Yet it is an informal fallacy of content, not a formal fallacy. Sometimes the totality has the same quality as the parts because of the nature of the parts invoked—the wall is brick (composed of baked clay) because it is built of bricks (composed of baked clay). The universe’s contingency, theists argue, resembles the second case. If all the contingent things in the universe, including matter and energy, ceased to exist simultaneously, the universe itself, as the totality of these thing…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/cosmological-argument.md

9. 09 · arxiv0.774

   I explore physics implications of the External Reality Hypothesis (ERH) that there exists an external physical reality completely independent of us humans. I argue that with a sufficiently broad definition of mathematics, it implies the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis (MUH) that our physical world is an abstract mathematical structure. I discuss various implications of the ERH and MUH, ranging from standard physics topics like symmetries, irreducible representations, units, free parameters, randomness and initial conditions to broader issues like consciousness, parallel universes and Godel in…

   arxiv/0704.0646-the-mathematical-universe/info.md

10. 10 · yt0.773

    Well, sure, if somebody proves the theorem, I mean, Andrew Wiles proved that there were no x to the n, that you can have a sum of two squares which is another square, but there's no other power which the sum of two of that powers gives you another thing which has the same power I mean, that's mathematical statement and that would be true. Whether the universe had different physical laws and it's completely independent is a mathematical statement is objectively true. How we come across to understand why it is true, maybe very difficult question, very few people really understand, how many peopl…

    yt/0nOtLj8UYCw-quantum-consciousness-debate-does-the-wave-function-actually/transcript.txt