Georges Quénot wrote: > peterdjones wrote: > > > > [...] > > (To put it another way: the point is to explain > > experience. Physicalism explains non-experience > > of HP universes by saying they don't exist. MM appeals > > to ad-hoc hypotheses about non-interaction. All explanations > > have to end somewhere. The question is how many > > unexplained assumptions there are). > > I would like to understand your view. How do *you* solve > the "HP universe" problem? In your view of things, amongst > all the mathematical objects to which a universe could be > isomorphic to, *what* does make only one (or a few) "exist" > or "be real" or "be physical" or "be instanciated" and all > others not?
In your view, what means that only mathematical objects exist ? All explanations stop somewhere. The question is whether they succeed in explaining experience. > Also, you reject "mathematical monism" as not making sense > for you but what about the ohter conjectures I mentionned? > Do you find that "physical monism" ("mind emerges from > matter activity"), "mathematical realism" ("mathematical > objects exist by themselves") and "Tegmark's hypothesis" > ("our universe is isomorphic to a mathematical object", > though Tegmark might no be the first to propose the idea) > make sense? Have some chance of being true? > Do you find that "physical monism" ("mind emerges from matter activity"), All the evidence points to this. > "mathematical realism" ("mathematical objects exist by themselves") Not supported by empirical evidence; not needed to explain the epistemic objectivity of mathematics. >and "Tegmark's hypothesis" > ("our universe is isomorphic to a mathematical object", Must be at least partially true, or physics would not work, > Georges. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---