[Ian G.R.]

Originally Posted by Da Pope

Its like nihilism or sumit?

Something like that.

[Zapruder]

Originally Posted by galois

I watched a documentary about time a few months back on which a professor of astro-physics (iirc) based at Imperial college London said something along the lines of if we believe general relativity then time does not exist in the way we perceive it at all and in fact all events occur 'simultaneously' (whatever that can mean). So our lives are not sequences of events but rather stable volumes in space-time. So god can't kill anything as, in a sense, we're all already dead (and at the same time yet to born). Now I have no idea how true this is, or even what it actually means, but it sounds pretty cool no?

Makes paraconsistent logic seem a little more reasonable.

[galois]

I just skimmed through this article http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-paraconsistent/ on paraconsistent logic. I'd not come across it before, although I'd had vague thoughts along those lines. It seems quite reasonable, maybe not as an accurate representation of the world but certainly as a model of how we interact with the world. It looks like it could (and probably does) have good applications in branches of A.I because of this.