Hi Terren,
Hi Brent,
No, I don't have any desire to anthropomorphize those things you
mentioned, but I think it's fair to say we are all wired to want to
anthropomorphize things in general - especially things we can't
predict that have some kind of impact on us, like the weather. That
said, I don't have a particular *need* to do so, and if the "god of
comp" is best understood as nothing but the cold calculus of logic,
so be it.
Well, *this* will not work, as logicism has failed, and must fail,
even on only arithmetic. So arithmetical truth provably escapes all
calculus and logic. If not the comp God would get a name, and it has
no name (for the machine), ... or we would be more than machine.
But the indeterminacy embodied by comp as Bruno has exposed opens
the door to potentially many interpretations of Truth... so it got
me to thinking about if there were ways in which solving the measure
problem might end up characterizing the nature of the kind of
mathematical truth that could support the experience we are having
right now. I think it's an interesting question.
Yes. But a very complex one.
Believe me, I am as far from talking about the bearded guy as any
diehard atheist, so don't take this as a question that leads
anywhere in particular. I have no agenda here, I promise. I walk a
path somewhere between atheism and a full-blooded embrace of
"divinity" (a wide range I know), and I make no claims to having any
kind of consistent position. Bruno's idealism does appeal to me
though, and I am exploring that.
OK. And with Arithmetical Truth playing the role of God, we can
reasonably assert that God has no beard :)
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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