Le 22-sept.-06, à 08:16, Russell Standish a écrit :
> > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 04:16:53PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> Russell, when you say "nothing external exist", do you mean "nothing >> primitively material" exist, or do you mean there is no independent >> reality at all, not even an immaterial one? (I ordered your book but >> I >> am still waiting :) >> >> Bruno >> >> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ >> > > The latter. I am not sure this makes sense for me. > To be more precise, I identify Nothing with > undifferentiated form, a bit like the Chaos of the ancient Greeks. OK but that is a big "Nothing". > To > be even more precise, I identify it with the zero information object, > or > the set of all strings. That is bigger and bigger. This confirms my feeling that we should use the axiomatic method, because terminology is confusing. > Any person's experience is obtained by > differentiating - selecting something from that "nothing". > > The relationship between this zero information object, and > arithmetical platonia is a bit unclear, but I would say that anything > constructible (Sigma_1) must be extractable from the zero information > object. OK then. But this means you are an arithmetical realist, and that an external "reality" exist, for example your strings, or your set of strings, and I am still more confused by your saying there is not even an immaterial external reality, which would be solipsism with a revenge. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
