On 8 Jun 2017 2:35 a.m., "Bruce Kellett" <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
I have just come across this paper from a year or so ago. Rovelli essentially summarizes many of my own negative feelings about mathematical platonism. Interesting paper, Bruce. However AFAICS he is in effect making the case for the computationalist mode of explanation, which is indeed related to the notion of Michelangello's stone or Borges's library. The crucial difference is in the definition of the observer and its 'interest' or interpretation as intrinsic rather than imposed from without. Of course, the not inconsiderable task of explicating the precise consequences of such intrinsic perceptual filtering remains. But the mode of explanation relies on the computationalist Babel as its inferential basis, which is the extent to which it need be said to 'exist'. It is precisely *eludes* reification because it is the unique assumptive basis upon which the provenance of 'things' is subsequently to be inferred. It's not a thing in itself; its role is explanatory, not substantial. Again in effect Rovelli alludes to the deeper import of this approach to a 'theory of everything'. In essence it 'out-Darwins Darwin' by proposing, in principle, how the appearance of creativity, from the emergent perspective of an intrinsic interpretation, could indeed come about without the need to appeal to a creator. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.00001.pdf Bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
