On 11 Jul 2013, at 17:50, John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 Johnathan Corgan <[email protected]> wrote:
> This thread has devolved somewhat into arguing definitions,
Yes, word games and arguing over what arbitrary meaning a sequence
of ASCII characters should have is what passes for philosophy these
days. Meanwhile REAL philosophers have discovered that there is more
than one type of infinity,
Cantor was a mathematician.
Yes, he was quite interested in theology, but he published nothing in
that field.
that something can be true but have no proof,
Only that for all theory there is some (arithmetical) truth
unprovable. Yes.
that complex animals are developed by random mutation and natural
selection,
That random mutation and natural selection participate in the
development, but many things partially already developed participates
too.
that the key to the heredity process is DNA and it's entirely digital,
Relatively to the laws of chemistry or physics, yes. This by itself
does not entirely make the process, or DNA itself digital.
and that the universe is not only expanding but is accelerating. And
the people who write "philosopher" in the occupation box of their
tax returns continue to argue over the dictionary definition of
words. Pitiful.
You just seem physicalist without knowing that it is an assumption.
You have still not anwser how you predict first person expectation for
any experience in physics when we assume computationalism. (or more
easy: physicalism + a universe robust enough to run the UD).
Bruno
John K Clark
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