All the properties of a possible world would have to be non-physical. — AJJ
Two different things are noted to be similar in some respect. — TheWillowOfDarkness
So is there a spatial location of your computer in the possible world you mentioned? — Terrapin Station
Yes, but only potentially as opposed to actually. — AJJ
So you're claiming that potentials exist as something "independent" basically? — Terrapin Station
I think possible worlds exist independently of the actual world, yeah. — AJJ
They exist potentially, in the way the brownness of a yellow banana exists potentially. It isn’t actual, because the banana is yellow, but it obviously can be. — AJJ
I disagree. What makes it incoherent? — AJJ
It would be like arguing that it's a fact that brown or yellow bananas are colorless, only not in the actual world, but rather in the "esoteric realm." — Terrapin Station
That things change is obvious, but what allows them to is less so. — AJJ
as if not changing would be the default that we need permission to depart from? — Terrapin Station
Not changing isn't a default. — Terrapin Station
it can be and has been explained in at least one way, as described above. — AJJ
Why would anything need to allow or "enable" change? That's what you need to explain. Why you'd think that. — Terrapin Station
An existent non-actual is incoherent. — Terrapin Station
Because on the face of things the brownness of a banana doesn’t exist while the banana is yellow. So the change on first consideration seems a case of something (the brownness) appearing out of nothing, which isn’t logically possible so change must be an illusion (Parmenides). But change isn’t an illusion - it’s obvious. So how does it occur? Aristotle seems to have given a very good answer to that. — AJJ
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