Le 10-juil.-06, à 04:58, George Levy a écrit :
> > Stephen Paul King wrote: > >> little discussion has >> been given to the implications of taking the 1st person aspect as >> primary or >> fundamental. Could you point me toward any that you have seen? >> >> > > Hi Stephen > > Alas, I am a mere engineer, not a philosopher. The only author I can > point you to is John Locke who I was told had some view similar to the > ones I expressed. I have formed my opinions mostly independently in > the > process of writing a book (unpublished :'( ) I think that science is > moving gradually toward first person - starting with Galileo's > relativity, then Einstein's relativity and finally with QM (MWI). As > science had progressed, the observer has acquired a greater and greater > importance. Extrapolating to the limit, "I" becomes central and its > existence anthropically defines (creates) the world where it resides. I think Stephen Paul king, David Lyman and you are on the same "heraclitean" track. It is possible to divide the greek 'theologian" into the Parmenidians and the Heracliteans. Actually the same division appears in the world of the physicists and mathematicians. The trifle between Brouwer and Cantor is reminiscent of that division. It is the "battle" between the first person and the third person for the supremacy with respect to the fundamental questions. The first person want time/consciousness to be primary, and is basically Heraclitean. The third person want the primitive elements to be sharable so that their fundamental theories can be "scientific" (meaning sharable). It is a complex matter, and it is, to be sure, still an open question, depending on the behavior of some arithmetical interpretation of the notion of persons (Plotinus' hypostases). See the recent conversation on the FOR list which bears on that question. Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
