I don’t think you can just uncritically say “surely the world is thus and so”.
But it was a conditional statement. If the universe is discrete and finite, then obviously there are no immortal agents either.
Basically I don’t see that aspect of P6 as more problematic than the unbounded resource assumption. And when we question that assumption, we’ll be questioning a lot more than P6.
But it was a conditional statement. If the universe is discrete and finite, then obviously there are no immortal agents either.
Basically I don’t see that aspect of P6 as more problematic than the unbounded resource assumption. And when we question that assumption, we’ll be questioning a lot more than P6.