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Then my statement is vacuously true. (This was intentional, but perhaps a bit obscure.)



I'm a bit confused why this got downvoted. I can understand my parent post being downvoted, but the explanation for my parent post? Is it false?


I simply can't make heads nor tails of the parent comment. It was probably downvoted because people think it is nonsensical. Here is my explanation:

1. What does it mean to be "discrete on a macroscopic level"? (If a universe were discrete, would it not be discrete at any scale? When we use the term "discrete", are we talking about state space, or discrete spacetime, or what?)

2. What does it mean for a universe to "inherently [be] a natural number"? (Universes are not numbers, right? Is some sort of claim that the universe's state space is finite?)

3. What does have to do with whether a universe was "intelligently created"? (How can it possibly make sense that "intelligent creation" is an alternative to a discrete universe? The claims seem entirely unrelated.)

The "explanation" comment doesn't attempt to explain anything so I'm not sure why you call it an explanation. (Well, perhaps it explains that a conditional with a false antecedent is logically true, but most people here already know that, so pointing it out is not a great way to contribute to the discussion.)




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