15 Oct '21 16:36>
@sonship saidYou and Mr Mackie are both perfectly free to be surprised that the universe in which they exist permits them to do so. Me, I'm just not. The fact that I'm here and able to think strongly suggests to me that the nuts and bolts of the universe are such that I am able to exist and think. I don't see much value in speculating about the nature of other universes, should such things be possible.
@avalanchethecatSeriously? Oh how tedious.
How about when you said:
...Life permitting conditions did not have to be the case. Why do you insist that they had to be?
Okay, in the sequence of exchanges it is entirely possible that some position you held did not become as clear to me as latter in our exchanges.
I take no pleasure in misrepresenting ...[text shortened]... te about places in which we would not be alive to witness. Would you want to correct his view here?