[ExI] The Many Dimensional Sculpture, or dont' bother about runtime

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:


> Is Lewis saying that possibilities exist (in the sense that a mental
> agent can rationalize that something might be 'possible' given his
> limited understanding of the greater world), or that if we allow
> such 'possibilities' we automatically must acknowledge their full and
> total existence?


### In my initial post I weaseled out of saying what it means to "be", or
what "everything" means, because it hurts my brain to think about it, but
since you ask... The way I see it, everything exists. I mean it in the
hardcore metaphysical sense - whatever it means to "be", everything you can
think of and a lot more, have this property. Even contradictions, even
inconsistent logic, even mathematical impossibilities exist, as hard as
rocks, except we are not there to touch them.

OK, my mind hurts. Need to sleep.

Rafal
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