Dear Lennart, I did not read Cooper's argumentation, but would like to learn (I don't believe he explained that) with what kind of logical system is he capable of thinking except for the ONE which our mind provided - within the circumstances and evolutionary process (I call the 'history' of this entire universe: evolution) we 'live' in? Whatever one imagines is human-bound. I do not disagree with the formulation of Cooper you wrote, In our tens of billennia long mental development we (i.e. humans after our evolutionary ancestors) formulated ever enriching and changing (limited) models for 'this world' and the latest 1-2 centuries of the last millennium resulted in the "3+1D version I referred to. Lately, reaching into the 3rd mill, we started to apply a novel thinking paradigm with a different logic (Bruno?). I don't know about a "classic" one. I still use my common sense - allowing to changes by this new pattern in the epistemic enrichment process. So MY common sense thinking may be different from J. Lock's common sense. The generally accepted (scientific, physical) 'system' is based on restricted observations and their calculative compromise into quantitative matches. Restricted by the use of ancient to modern instruments and a continuation of belief system. All supporting the "model" of a successful, reductionist scientific edifice of old. Laws, axioms, Big Bang, spin, gravity, collapse of the wave function, DNA, to eliminate the older ones.
It is 'all logical', our logic served in explaining those poorly received/understood effects over the centuries. It seems Cooper made that step ahead, I just fail to get the "classical". (Will search for the book). John M ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lennart Nilsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:47 AM Subject: SV: Only logic is necessary? " We are a quite sinple system (depicted in 3+1 D), so our logic is also pretty simple (one-way pragmatic)." Actually Cooper shows that even our simple system is not classically logical... -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För John M Skickat: den 5 juli 2006 17:30 Till: [email protected] Ämne: Re: Only logic is necessary? Lennart: J.Cohen and I.Stewart in their chef d'oeuvre "Collapse of Chaos" play around with aliens who they call Zarathustrans, and who display a different 'alien' logic. It is quite refreshing. You say: Sound? brings up the tune of the Latin maxim: mens sana in corpore sano assigning the 'mental' to the body we deal with. I reformulated this latter as: the mind is limited by the 'material' tools we use. Other tools? - maybe other logic, other math. A uiniverse IMO is structured by the ingredients it started with in the unlimited variability of infinite BigBangs (my narrative) consequently the relations of those different ingredients (universe-system, call it universe consciousness etc.) may evolve different self reflective complex conglomerates (like here: it is us humans) with accordingly shaped mentality (logic, math, etc.) We are a quite sinple system (depicted in 3+1 D), so our logic is also pretty simple (one-way pragmatic). Other universes may be more sophisticated and I have pity for those poor fellow (simpleminded) humans who may 'teleport' or 'duplicate' into such - much more sophisticated worlds and may become there their stupid bums<G> with their memory-experience-logic luggage. John M --- Lennart Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William S. Cooper says: "The absolutist outlook has > it that if a logic is > valid at all it is valid period. A sound logic is > completely sound > everywhere and for everyone, no exceptions! For > absolutist logicians a > logical truth is regarded as 'true in all possible > worlds', making logical > laws constant, timeless and universal." > > Where do the laws of logic come from? he asks the > absolutist. > > Bruno? > > -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.9/382 - Release Date: 7/4/2006 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
