From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 19:16:14 MDT
Topological theology? And we thought medieval arguments about how many angels
could dance on the head of a pin were out there. <g>
- samantha
answer: How ever many angels should in fact exist and have a desire to dance on
the head of said pin.
Anders Sandberg wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:24:19PM +1000, Damien Broderick wrote:
> >
> > There's nothing more uncomfortable than building your theodicy on the wrong
> > shaped spacetime.
>
> At least it is falsifiable.
>
> Hmm, topological theology - the science of what gods and moral systems
> are possible in spacetimes of different topology. "Oh, this is a
> non-orientable universe, so dualism is not consistent. But the genus is
> sufficiently negative to enable deontological ethics, at least in a
> linearized sense."
>
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