Hi Tim Le 03-avr.-07, à 12:03, Tim Boykett wrote (in part):
> One of the recurring ideas here is that of "mathematicalism" - an > idea > that I understand to be that we perceive things as physical that have > a certain > mathematical structure. One of the "everything" ideas that results is > that > only certain of the all-possible universes have the right stuff to be > perceivable, the right mathematical structure. We are in one such > universe, > and there are others. We can come back on this if you are really interested, but shortly: once we assume the computationalist hypothesis (in the cognitive science/theology), then the picture you give is most probably wrong. Physics keeps a better role in the sense that physics emerges from the "whole of arithmetic/mathematic". If you want, the physical world is not a special mathematical world as seen from inside, but the physical world somehow is the sum of all possible mathematical world where you are. "we" are not *in* a mathematical structure, we are distributed in an infinity of mathematical structures, and physicality emerges from the interference of them. Why a wavy interference? Open problem. 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
