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Subject: Re: Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
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From: Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 12:37:59 -0700
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On 04/04/2025 12:29 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> On 04/04/2025 10:46 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
>> The Starmaker wrote:
>>>
>>> Stephen Hawking once asked:
>>>
>>> Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
>>>
>>> If Stephen Hawking would like an answer
>>> to that question, has he ever consider
>>> asking a woman that question?
>>>
>>> I don't mean a woman scientist..
>>>
>>> i mean, just any woman.
>>>
>>> Where did Stephen Hawking get the idea he is
>>> entitled to know the answer?
>>>
>>> Is he Moses?
>>
>> I was under the impression that Stephen Hawking  was an atheist.
>>
>> But he refers to the universe as a person, a being, a self that feels
>> "bother"..
>>
>>
>> Why is Stephen Hawking soooo bothered by a bothered universe?
>>
>>
>> Mother Nature?
>>
>>
>> Is something bothering here?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Yous science guys make no sense...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> That's the old "fundamental question of metaphysics",
> that books like Genesis and John intend to entail,
> as for a space-time and a language to ponder it,
> then as with regards to why thusly a sort of
> strong mathematical platonism and strong logicist positivism,
> make for a sort of strong mathematical universe hypothesis,
> it's called the fundamental question of metaphysics,
> and the philosophy of physics then is meant to reflect
> on "Foundations", which are a sort of altogether.
>
> It's sort of like Born's "Restless Universe", about
> some "root probabilistic flaw" in otherwise an empty
> void or static universe, what makes for a theory that's
> a physics that's a sum-of-histories sum-of-potentials
> with least-action and least gradient, of which there's
> a science that happens to always concur, that any sort
> of reasonably apt reasoning agent can sort of establish
> as via a "Principle of Sufficient, and Thorough, Reason",
> the reason the rationality the natural the real,
> that it's not much like Born's "Restless Universe",
> which is more of a quantum theorist's lament the
> indeterminism, that may be a simple enough consequence
> of the deliberation and contemplation of a mathematical
> universe, which is a continuum mechanics again, and
> a heno-theory, with an ideal physics, and an analytical physics.
>
>

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