Cool post. I really liked your replies. Please clarify one thing:
>It takes a mind to pose a question (regardless of how that mind is manifest).
>Even if you include single quarks playing a direct role in cognition, then
>all the possible permutations in all dimensions of all the quarks in all
>the "brains" of all the sentient entities (in all the universes?) that
>could even loosely be identified as a question are still "infinitely less
>than infinity". The only way to have an infinite number of questions is if
>the basic units of cognition were infinitely small (making the owners
>omniscient?...).
Considering the fact that thoughts are a function of time as well as
matter, and assuming that the universe will expand forever, and assuming
that proton decay doesn't completely obliterate all matter (eg. there's an
infinitely stable particle that we don't know about), can't there be an
infinite number of thoughts, ie questions? Hopefully, not many will take
the form of run-on sentences like that last one.
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>Philosophical discourse can be fun, even /useful/, but only when constrained
>by fact, logic and rational thinking.
>
Exactly. Otherwise, what's the point?