Le 05-oct.-06, à 13:55, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> Can we 'emulate' totality? I don't think so. I don't always insist on that but with just the "Church thesis" part of comp, it can be argued that we can emulate the third person describable totality, and indeed this is what the Universal Dovetailer do. The key thing, but technical (I was beginning to explain Tom and George), is that such an emulation can be shown to destroy any reductionist account of that totality, and still better, make the first person totality (George's first person plenitude perhaps) infinitely bigger (even non computably bigger, even unameable) than the 3 person totality. There is a Skolem-Carroll phenomena: the first person "inside" view of the 3-totality is infinitely bigger than the 3-totality, like in the "Wonderland" where a tree can hide a palace ... > Can we copy the total, > unlimited wholeness? Not really. It is like the quantum states. No clonable, but if known, preparable in many quantities. At this stage it is only an analogy. > I don't think so. > What I feel is a restriction to "think" within a model and draw > conclusions > from it towards beyond it. Mmmh... It is here that logician have made progress the last century, but nobody (except the experts) knows about those progress. > Which looks to me like a category-mistake. It looks, but perhaps it isn't. I agree it seems unbelievable, but somehow,we (the machine) can jump outside ourself ... (with some risk, though). Bruno PS Er..., to Markpeaty and other readers of Parfit: I think that his use of the term "reductionist" is misleading, and due in part to his lack of clearcut distinction between the person points of view. 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 [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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
