Hmm, > However, I do start getting uncomfortable when I realize that this > lucky teleportation can happen over and over again, and if it happens > fast enough, it just reduces to sheer randomness that just happens to > be generating an ordered pattern that looks like Kory. I have a hard > time understanding how a mechanist can consider a bunch of random > numbers to be conscious. If that's the kind of magic you're referring
I think that is the major attraction of "mathematical universes" - that the order emerges "after the fact" - out of random patterns. The order would take over the function of causality in a materialist picture. Causality, as Brent (I think) has mentionend, is still not really understood. What physicists mean is actually a certain kind of locality - and macro-causality emerges as a statistical mean. This is already not so far from "order from randomness" (in platonia locality would also be an "after the fact", a "physical" feature). Bruno takes the whole step, dumps matter, and let's mind emerge from arithmetic truth. What I think fascinating is why we then find ourselves as "single persons" - if one dumps matter, why is not an arbitrary ordering out of the "number mess" conscious of being many persons at once (in the matter picture: being aware of superpositions). Why then the feeling of being a single person? In Bruno's system: why are OM's tied to single persons? Cheers, Günther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
