Platonius' Arguments for the Sensitive Universe

The physical cosmos necessarily flows forth from these higher principles the way light does from a light source or water from a fountain so you can't have them without a physical cosmos. So it's basically nothing about the cosmos in its own right that would keep it in existence. But to his credit he kind of puzzles over this fact over this question of whether the sensible universe is always numerically identical. Whether it's the same sensible universe or whether it's more like these use the ship that parts are being replaced and ultimately maybe we have a different sensible universe. That depends on how one thinks of nature and nature's relation to the sensible cosmos which I guess will probably have time to get to eventually I would