On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:59:09PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > 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 >
The set of all strings is the same object, regardless of interpretation, regardless of alphabet, and is the only object to have zero information. It is a good candidate for the Everything, but curiously it has the properties of Nothing. One simply cannot observe this zero information object, one can only observe somethings, descriptions in my terminology. Anything in Sigma_1 is such a something. Anything you can possibly to convey to me about any mathematical object must also be extractable. However, there are possibly mathematical things not within the zero information objects, but they are inherently noncommunicable (shades of you G*\G perhaps?). I think all that I say is that external reality is Nothing. It is not quite the same as saying there is no external reality, but not far off. But solipsism is really about other minds, in any case, so its hardly solipsism. Cheers -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
