On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 05 Feb 2013, at 08:16, Kim Jones wrote: > > http://io9.com/5981472/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-universe-here-is-one-possible-answer > > > OK - so rip into it and say why it's all nonsense. > > > It is full of sense, but a bit trivial, and then he uses implicitly comp, > but fail to generalize its approach, and to see it makes non trivial sense > from that point. I am afraid it makes also his view more complex by trying > to avoid the MWI, which of course makes it still more far from comp. Like > many physicists, he avoids the mind body problem. It is still a form of > Aristotelianism, which, I argue, is not compatible with the comp hyp in the > cognitive science. But somehow, it is less wrong than many others, if we > abstract from what has to be revised in the light of comp. > > Bruno >
Here is a generalization of Smolin's approach: http://www.neuroquantology.com/index.php/journal/article/view/285 > > > > > > Kim Jones > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
