Dear Prof. Tegmark, I have been trying to think of a way to make computationalism work but I can see no force that numbers might have on the physical world that might empower them.
Instead I see computationalism as a form of magic. Serious magic if you will, but still magic, magic in the sense that saying the proper magic words or drawing certain figures or performing certain incantations or rituals will cause things to happen, presumably in imitation of those forms. But even though it is a form of magic, it may be that the numbers can be causal in some paranormal sense, if you can accept Leibniz's view that ideas seek perfection and physical realization is the highest perfection. If you can accept that, you might give some acceptance to the idea, and that actions can be preformed by intentions. Best, Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
