On 22 Jul 2011, at 20:52, meekerdb wrote:
On 7/22/2011 2:11 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
But what is a world? Also, assuming computationalism, you need
only to believe that you interact with a "world/reality",
whatever that is, like in dream. If not you *do* introduce some
magic in both consciousness and world.
So I need to believe some magic or I have to introduce some
magic. That seems a distinction without a difference.
With comp the only magic is 0, 1, 2, 3, + addition + multiplication.
But is that the *only* magic. It seems to me that your argument
includes the magic of the UD. If I understand it, it says that if a
UD is running it executes all possible programs. Among those
programs are ones that are simulations of Everett's multiverse, such
as we may inhabit, including the simulations of ourselves.
Consciousness is some part of the information processing in those
simulations of us; where the the same conscious state is realized in
many different programs and so has many different continuations and
predecessors.
But all this is a hypothetical depending on a UD.
The UD is a collection of number relations, and its existence is a
theorem in elementary arithmetic. I did recall you this some hours
ago, I think. There is nothing hypothetical in the existence of the
UD. It is already part of the proofs in non Löbian universal machine.
It is a computer scientist description of Sigma_1 truth. Even
intuitionist have a UD.
The theory of everything is less demanding than the UD argument which
presuppose you are conscious, and there is some consensual reality,
with doctor and brains, for example.
But the UDA should convince you that the TOE is just:
0 is different for s(x)
s(x) = s(y) -> x = y
x + 0 = x
x + s(y) = s(x + y)
x*0 = 0
x*s(y) = x * y + x
That's all. People who does not like number can take:
Kxy = x
Sxyz = xz(yz).
It is equivalent.
And aside from the problem that prima facie it will produce more
chaotic non-lawlike experiences than law-like ones, there is no
reason to suppose a UD exists. This explanation of the world is
very much like Boltzmann's brain. It generates "everything" and
then tries to pick out "this".
The UD exists independently of you like 777 is odd independently of
you. Don't confuse the UD with the 'concrete UD' needs at step seven
in the UDA. The universe does not need to "disappear" for having most
consequences already available, and it does not need to be emulated
at all by step 8.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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