@Strodgers,
Strodgers;143781 wrote:Since metaphysics deal with the probable, I'm curious to know if someone could say believing in alien life is metaphysical, along with the concepts of films like Star Trek and Star Wars. EX: Can there be a Millennium Falcon flying out there now? Will we be able to go to 'Warp Speed?' These are possibilities that we can consider but have vague to no idea how it's to be done.
Further, scientists claim for a fact that Black Hole exist when no one has been up next to one. Can we say that is a metaphysical concept?
I would first assume that before dealing with the sole probability (metaphysics-->ontology-->categories--> predication-->philosophy of language-->logic, etc.), metaphysics would deal first with the predicates of ultimate reality, what really exists, and what distinguishes it from one another and makes it possible.
With all this in mind, I would suppose that alien life could be considered metaphysical if you think about the issue in a few ways. The first would be the most obvious application of metaphysical ontology, being that there are specific predicates that are (for lack of a better word) universal in substantive predication. For example, we could have humans on one planet and aliens on another, but the probabilistic variables are innumerable. However, the substantive predicates could work out to where whatever the appearance of an alien or a human, all attributes (however complex or simple they may be) are predicated on a common substrate (humanoid form, atomic composition, corporeal form, etc.). It really is a never ending story as far as that is concerned.
But then if you look at it from a physicalist point of view though, that only physical are fundamental, any state (alien, humanoid, etc.) whether it be featuring an underlying property (maybe some base element for example), or relationary particulars, they all constitute a
fundamental physical metaphysical basis.
And I bring up ontology in particular not because it is something out of the blue, but because it is categorical precursor for logical deductive/inductive reasoning (ie. Logic). It is within that field that you may get a better answer as far as probability calculus is concerned. Whether or not something may exist or even if it will be possible to, say, travel at warp speed, depend on a myriad of variables dependant of all things on our own truth functional framework. Occasionally that framework is overturned. Such is the case with black holes, where our preconceived framwwork must be considered, overturned, and revised.
On this note, there was an interesting finding that black holes may contain other universes. True story (possibly?). LOL! Check out the link;
Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe?