On 28 Nov 2012, at 02:12, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 7:29:42 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
On 11/27/2012 10:52 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
The question though is how does that happen? How do tangible things
interface with logic - how do they know the logic is there, how do
they 'obey' it, and through what capacity can they express that
obedience?
It's the other way around. Language was invented to describe things
and logic is just some rules about making inferences in a way such
that you don't end up inadvertently contradicting yourself.
Right. That's what I'm getting at. Logic didn't invent consciousness.
OK.
Even if logic could invent something, it wouldn't be able to tell
that it had.
Not really.
PA can discover and prove the existence of prime numbers, and can also
prove that PA can prove the existence of the prime numbers. In at
least a sense, she can know the prime numbers exist, and she can know
that she can know that prime numbers exist.
Before arithmetic truths or physical laws can exist, there must
first exist the capacity to detect, discern, and participate in
sensory experience of some kind.
OK.
And the comp hypothesis suggest to explain or defined the capacity to
detect, discern, and participate in sensory experience of some kind by
mechanical, or arithmetical (it is equivalent, with CT), relation.
The riddle of consciousness is explained by the existence of truth
about numbers, that numbers can develop many beliefs about, sometimes
true, yet unjustifiable, and in some case knowingly unjustifiable by
them.
At the propositional level we inherit for the ideal sound machines two
logics of self-reference, one give the provable part of self-reference
(G) and the other (G*) give the true, including the non provable, part
of self-reference.
That is the only conceivable universal primitive: sense.
Which sense? Mine? Yours? The jumping spider's sense? The computer's
sense?
Sorry but it is easier for me to make sense of numbers making sense,
than making sense of sense making numbers not making sense.
There is a theory of self-reference for the relative numbers, relative
to *probable* universal numbers.
Physics origin is explained by that probability calculus on the
universal number histories competing for your continuation (from your
1p view).
Comp extends "Darwin and Everett" on arithmetic, somehow. And I don't
say the result is the true physics, I say that it is testable.
Bruno
Craig
Brent
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