A modest question. What's left of materialism (to even argue about) when orthodox theoretical physics itself sees the world in terms of virtual particles and one-dimensional strings? m.a.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruno Marchal" <marc...@ulb.ac.be> To: <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:27 AM Subject: Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology > > > On 14 Sep 2009, at 19:46, Flammarion wrote: > >> >> >> >> On 13 Sep, 09:02, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: >>> On 12 Sep 2009, at 16:42, Flammarion wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 11 Sep, 19:34, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: >>>>> On 11 Sep 2009, at 17:45, Flammarion wrote: >>> >>>>> Once you say "yes" to the doctor, there is a clear sense in which >>>>> "you" (that is your third person relative computational state, the >>>>> one >>>>> the doctor digitalizes) exist in arithmetic, or exist >>>>> arithmetically, >>>>> and this in infinite exemplars, relatively to an infinity of >>>>> universal >>>>> numbers which executes the computation going through that state, >>>>> and >>>>> this in the arithmetical sense, which implied a subtle mathematical >>>>> redundancy. >>> >>>> Not at all. >>> >>> It follows from saying "yes" to a material re-incarnation. I have no >>> clue why you say so. >> >> No consequences about an immaterial re-incarnation >> follow from saying yes to a mteriali re-incarnation > > The epistemological consequence that physicalism is false follows from CLIP... > MGA. > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
