Hi Bruno,
Interleaving some comments.
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From: Bruno Marchal
To: [email protected] ; Stephen Paul King
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: 3-PoV from 1 PoV?
On 08 May 2009, at 17:49, Stephen Paul King wrote:
I came upon the idea after considering how is it that the notion of an
"objective reality" when we know for a fact that all of our knowledge does not
come from any kind of direct contact with an "objective reality", at best it is
infered.
Yes. Even at the deepest level. Science transforms knowledge into belief by
making us aware of the hypothetical nature of our mental construction.
I would say that science is the condition of genuine faith or bets.
[spk]
Falsifiable bets. ;)
Leibniz' Monadology can be considered as a way to think of this idea where
each monad represents a 1-PoV.
Difficult to make sense. Leibniz is a complex and variable author. I have
read the Monadology and consult some expert of Leibniz, but it remains hard to
figure out how it works.
[spk]
Leibniz' Monadology is difficult to comprehend because he starts off with
an inversion of the usual way of thinking about the world. By assuming that the
observer's point of view is the primitive, it follows that the notions of space
and time are secondary, "orderings", and not some independent substance or
container.
A synchronization of many such 1PoV, given some simple consistensy
requirements, would in the large number limit lead to a notion of a "common
world of experience".
Don't you need some "common world of experience" to have a notion of
synchronization?
[spk]
No, not if all of the structure that one might attribute to a "commn world
of experience" is already within the notion of a monad. A Monad, considered in
isolation, is exactly like an infinite quantum mechanical system. It has no
definite set of particular properties, it has *all properties* as
possibilities.
What I am considering is to replace Leibniz' notion of a "pre-ordained
harmony", his version of a a priori existing measure, I propose a notion of
local ongoing process. A generalized notion of information processing or
computation, for example. We see this idea expressed by David Deutsch in his
book, The Fabric of Reality": "...think of all of our knowledge-generating
processes, ...., and indeed the entire evolving biosphere as well, as being a
gigantic computation. The whole thing is executiong a self-motivated,
self-generating computer program. ... it is a virtual-reality program in the
process of rendering, with ever increasing accuracy, the whole of existence."
pg. 317-318
When we consider an infinity of Monads, each, unless it is identical to
some other, is at least infinitesimably different. All of the aspects of a
collections of Monads that are identical collapse into a single state, a notion
of a background emerges from this. This idea is not different from the notion
of a "collective unconsciousness" that some thinkers like Karl Jung have
proposed. This leave us with finite distinctions between monads. Finite
distictions leads us to notions of distinguishing finite processes, etc.
The notion of "synchronization" is a figure of speach, a stand in, for that
is called "decoherence" in QM theory. By seeing that the phase relations of
many small QM systems tend to become entangled and no longed localizable, we
get the notion of a classical finite world. This is a "bottom up" explanation.
BTW: Notions, such as finitism, might be explained by intensionally
neglecting any continuance of thought that takes one to the conclusion that
infinities might actually exist!
The 3PoV would follow from a form of inversion or reflection of a 1PoV.
For example, we form thoughts of or fellow humans from our own experiences of
ourselves. BTW: it seems to me that consciousness, at least, requires some form
of dynamic self- modeling process. This implies that there is no such a thing
as a static consciousness.
I can agree. And you know the way I proceed. I start from elementary
arithmetic, the 3-elementary ontology. If only because 99,9% of the humans
agree on it, and it is already Turing universal and contains the whole
universal deployment. The epistemology is given by adding some induction schema
to the machine in there. It is illustrated by the going from Robinson
arithmetic to Peano Arithmetic (emulated by Robinson arithmetic). It is enough
to generate all "finite piece of histories", and we can get the many 1-pov by
the "Theaetetical variant of the logic of provability/consistency ...
So, if you agree that all dynamics are contained in the block-arithmetical
truth, consciousness is indeed related to "internal information flux", and so
we can say there is no static consciousness, in that sense. But here we mix the
3-description with the 1-description, and from this we cannot conclude that we
cannot have a conscious experience of static-ity or static-ness. With comp,
just because it remains a lot of work, the question of traveling in many
different physical directions is just open (obviously).
[spk]
But here is the problem I have, merely "agreeing" that "all dynamics are
contained in the "block-arithmatic truth" will require me to neglect the
computational complexity of that "Block Truth".
I had a conversation with Julian Barbour about this, trying to get him to
aknowledge his own discussion of how computational intensive his own theory
was/is, and he simply refused to see. It is the same problem that Leibniz has
with his notion of a "pre-ordained harmony". The computation of all possible
combinations of events needed to find the one that is "most optimal" has
already be proven to be intractible. Stephen Wolfram wrote of this: "...many
physical systems are computationally irreducible, so that their own evolution
is effectively the most efficient procedure for determining their future."
http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/articles/physics/85-undecidability/2/text.html
The idea of a Platonic Universe of Arithmetical truth is a notion that is
only coherent given the tacit assumption to some non-static process, such as
that implicit in thought, also co-exists. A What requires a To Whom. Being is
the Fixed-Point of Becoming.
Re the UD Measure problem: The idea i have is that we either have our
infinity within each Monad or try to find a way to derive a measure of the
infinity without reference to the only source of definiteness that we have
available: our conscious experience.
If I interpret favorably what you say, this is the passage from UDA to AUDA,
where I substitute "you working on UDA", by "the lobian universal machine
working on UDA".
I don't insist on this because it can be misunderstood. AUDA looks like an
elimination of the need to refer to "consciousness", but AUDA without a prior
understanding of UDA, would be like a confusion between theology and computer
science, comp can only relate them, not identify them it would be an error,
explainable in AUDA (!!!!!), to confuse them. Only God confuses them; in
sense, but a creature which confuses them is either a zombie, or a fake zombie,
or a person eliminativist.
You can regain consciousness in AUDA, by "defining" consciousness by the
"belief (hope, bet, faith) in a reality". But the bet is unconscious itself,
and this is partially why we are bounded, at some level, to confuse this very
basic belief with a knowledge.
Of course it is a knowledge, but only at the G* level, *we* cannot know that,
once we bet there is a reality (whatever it is).
All this does not mean that you could not try an alternate theory were the
3-pov emerge from the 1-pov, but with comp, the basic ontology is very simple
(numbers, addition and multiplication). And then 1-pov, or OMs, appears very
sophisticated. They are given "intuitively" by all possible computations
passing to a "current state", together with a topology derivable from the
self-reference logic (I think you know that).
Bruno
[spk]
The problem is that all notions such as "substitute", "misunderstood",
"understanding", "emerge", etc. all require some form of non-staticness. Simple
existence, "necessary possibility", is not enough. The comp model is
wonderfull, but it requires an engine of implementation.
Onward!
Stephen
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