On 22 Jan 2013, at 23:28, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 4:20:58 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote:
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3:49:09 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Craig Weinberg
<whats...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > That doesn't have anything to do with your straw man of my
position. I
>> > have
>> > never once said that existence is contingent upon human
consciousness. I
>> > state again and again that it is experience itself - the
capacity for
>> > sensory-motor participation which is the progenitor of all
possible
>> > forms of
>> > 'existence'. Something 'being' means that there is an experience,
>> > otherwise
>> > there is no possibility of anything ever coming into being.
>>
>> However, in a static Block MWI Universe there is no need for time
or
>> consciousness or experience.
>
>
> Then in what sense does it 'exist'?
It must be an illusion. Either that or MWI is an illusion. Doesn't
Bruno say that matter is a dream or illusion? Richard
I think MWI and block universe aren't even illusions, they are just
ideas to defend mechanism against the fact that reality is only
partially mechanistic.
Once we assume mechanism, we can explain why reality needs to be only
partially mechanistic. I think that you are confusing total computable
with partial computable. The universality of the Turing machine makes
her behavior not total computable. In fact it makes such machine much
more a new unknown, that we can invite at the discussion table, than
anything like an answer.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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