Hi Bruno Marchal Not to be rude, but how can numbers alone create theories ?
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/9/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-09, 11:09:32 Subject: Re: Communicability On 08 Nov 2012, at 20:17, Stephen P. King wrote: > On 11/8/2012 10:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> On 08 Nov 2012, at 14:42, Stephen P. King wrote: >> >>> On 11/8/2012 6:38 AM, Roger Clough wrote: >>>> Hi Stephen P. King >>>> >>>> There are no accidents in Platonia. >>>> There are also perfect parabolas, because >>>> Platonia is the realm of necessary logic, >>>> of pure reason and math, which are inextended. >>> Hi Roger, >>> >>> There are no accidents in and all is perfect and there is no >>> extension or time Platonia because we define Platonia that way. >>> But if we are to take Platonia as our basic ontological theory we >>> have a problem, we are unable to explain the necessity of the >>> imperfect world of matter that has time and is imperfect. >> >> Not at all. After G?el and Co. we know that "Platonia", or simply >> Arithmetic is full of relative imperfections. The machines which >> lives in Platonia suffer all from intrinsic limitations. Now, we >> know that Platonia contains typhoon, black hole, big bangs, taxes >> and death. Platonism is not the same before and after G?el-Turing. >> We can perhaps say that comp admits a more nietzchean reading of >> Plato. This could be called neo-neo-platonism, which is >> neoplatonism + Church thesis. It is also very pythagorean, as the >> numbers can, and have to, be seen in a new perspective. > Hi Bruno, > > So why bother with the illusion of a physical world? If > everything "just exists" in Platonia, No, in platonia only 0, 1, 2, 3, ... exists. The rest of existence, notably the couplings consciousness realities, exists in a secondary sense, in Platonia. They are epistemological realities obeying to the laws of computer science. > why does it need to exist elsewhere? Why have an "elsewhere"? All the interest of having arithmetic as a TOE relies in the fact that it explain where the physical reality comes from, and why it divides into quanta and qualia. > > > What is it in comp that necessitates the appearance of substances? That is explained by the UDA reasoning. The appearance of substances is more like a fact that we have to explain, once we bet the brain is a machine. > How do the relative values of numbers, which are fixed and eternal > in your thinking, acts as something like a prime mover that projects > or whatever is the proper word you wish to uses to explain the > emanations from Platonia to this realm? > > > How do you explain the appearance of change from that which is > changeless? You never seem to wish to go over the debate between > Heraclitus and Parmenides and explain why you side with Parmenides. I start from comp, then I derive consequences. Then it happens that some mystics seems to have intuited some of those consequences, without using comp, or using very na?e (pre-G?elian) intuition like in the "question of King Milinda". Now, to be sure, even the "physicist in me" has never taken for granted the existence of time, and has always felt himself more closer to Einstein and Hilbert than Prigogine or Brouwer. But I insist that I am never defending any conception of reality. I assume we are machine, and then make a reasoning. 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. -- 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.
