Re: Creationists declare war over the brain

On Oct 29, 7:33 am, Tim Tyler <seemy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Allan C Cybulskie wrote:
On Oct 28, 9:07 am, c...@xxxxxxxx (Curt Welch) wrote:
Physical laws are matter.

Actually, I think someone needs to point out the obvious answer to
BOTH of you: physical laws aren't things, so it is ridiculous to ask
whether they are matter or not. Only things can be described as
material [...]

It depends on whether the universe is simulated or not.

If there's a parent world, with our world's physical laws encoded
into the particles that compose the computer that runs our world,
then the rules that run our world might well literally be composed
of matter - which ought to satisfy /most/ conceptions of whether
something is material or not.

No matter how the laws are encoded, they still aren't things. You can
encode the laws in many different ways (neural patterns, writing to
storage disks, etc, etc) and they are still the "same laws". Laws are
not their instantiations.
.

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