NATS 1525 Lecture 1: Ancient Greece Schools of Thought on Aliens - Occam’s Razor, Murphy's Law (and More) Explained!
23 Jan 2019
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Believe matter is made of atom building blocks. Cheese, eventually you cannot half cheese after halving it a bunch. State of nature is the result of evolution. Never run out of building blocks of life. We must believe there are living creatures and plants and other things we see in our world. Did not attribute this creation to a god. Universes is different from the idea of inhabited planets today. Atomist def: a universe is an earth, moon, sun, etc. (solar system) They are independent and cannot be observed from other universes. Planets in 300bc moon, sun, and planets are all planets. Principle of plenitude (if it could exist, it must exist) Have enough mass to be round (mass has gravity) No genuine potentiality of being can remain unfulfilled. If it is possible it should exist (despite never seen) The abundance of creation is as vast as the possibility of existence. Are round but have not cleared their orbits.
