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<p> "There are two kinds of people. Those who believe there are
an irrational number of types of things, and those who don't."<br>
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<div dir="auto">Channeling Hywel, I hope accurately: There is no
irrational number of things of any type in the Universe<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 7:52 AM
glen∈ℂ <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com"
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Ha! You
raise two excellent points:<br>
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1) Is "a beer" a portion of a given volume or a massive noun?
<a href="https://youtu.be/cf0y2pVw6Tk" rel="noreferrer
noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://youtu.be/cf0y2pVw6Tk</a>
Or perhaps it refers to different batches, distinguished by
the process (ingredients, mash, boil, distribution)? But what
if you're a macro brewery and your quality control is so tight
that there's almost 0 difference between batches?<br>
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2) Would a monist object to the idea that we could distinguish
a 1.001 pluralist from a 1001 pluralist? After all the only
difference between having 1001 types of thing and 1.001 types
of thing is scaling. So, the real difference would be spectral
pluralist vs. continuum pluralist. So, we'd need to find a
pluralist who thought there were an irrational number of thing
types.<br>
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This episode was rather nice: "Does Life Need a Multiverse to
Exist?" <<a href="https://youtu.be/YmOVoIpaPrc?t=404"
rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://youtu.be/YmOVoIpaPrc?t=404</a>>
Up to that point, he's relying on an intuitive orthogonality
between the forces and constants ... a typical
misunderstanding of the "fine-tuning" argument. He goes on
(from the time I included in the URL) to hint at the unified,
*relational* sense of the argument. And he mentions it
specifically later, I think in talking about how string theory
tries to generate the different properties from the One True
Substance. 8^)<br>
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On 11/15/19 12:31 PM, Prof David West wrote:<br>
> I just bought a book for a Dutch friend - 1001 Beers.<br>
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