On 24 Feb 2011, at 01:20, 1Z wrote:
On Feb 23, 9:46 pm, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
On 22 Feb 2011, at 22:14, benjayk wrote:
Molecules and Cells are formal things. Form is matter, in *some*
sense.
Form is not *primary* matter in any sense.
That is why I say "in *some* sense.
I do agree more than you could perhaps expect, because the
phenomenological "primary matter" which is apparent for the universal
Löbian machine is indeed typically without form, or with undeterminate
form, given that it is a sum on all forms, against in a technical way
which I will not detail here.
People having problem with numbers have been victim of a traumatic
teaching of math.
The philosophical question of the existence of any thing, except
consciousness here and now, is desperately complex.
That is why I like comp, because it allows (and forces) to derive
the
psychological existence, the theological existence, the physical,
existence, and the sensible existence from the classical existence of
numbers, which is simple by definition, if you agree with the use of
classical logic in number theory.
What is classical existence?
It is "Ex" as used in classical logic, and in our context, by some
Löbian machine.
If you prefer It is the existence proved in the sound extensions of
Peano Arithmetic.
The other existence can be defined formally trough the modal points of
view. For example, roughly speaking, a physical phenomenon x "exists"
if we can prove BD(Ex(BDp(x)), with the B and D defined like in the
fourth and fifth arithmetical hypostases, and "p" some arithmetical
proposition. Neither physical existence, nor psychological existence
are classical existence. They are rather intuitionist existence and
quantum existence. That follows from the sharp definition I use, and
by using results by Boolos, Goldblatt, and Visser. They remain
classical when seen as epistemological or modal, but they are not
"lived" as such, given that no machine can known what really is its
own "B" predicate (saying "yes" to a doctor *is* a big jump).
Bruno
PS Did you get, or not the step seven? Do you agree that in any
universe running a UD, their "primary matter" does not solve the comp
WR problem, and that physics is reduced to that problem?
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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