On 15 October 2013 08:03, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Monday, October 14, 2013 12:46:34 PM UTC-4, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 14 Oct 2013, at 17:46, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> A first draft that I posted over the weekend. * >> * >> >> *I. Trailing Dovetail Argument (TDA)* >> >> *A. Computationalism makes two ontological assumptions which have not >> been properly challenged:* >> >> - *The universality of recursive cardinality* >> - *Complexity driven novelty*. >> >> Both of these, I intend to show, are intrinsically related to >> consciousness in a non-obvious way. >> >> *B. Universal Recursive Cardinality* >> >> Mathematics, I suggest is defined by the assumption of universal >> cardinality: The universe is reducible to a multiplicity of discretely >> quantifiable units. >> >> No mathematician will read more after this. Sorry Craig, but if you use >> standard terms, you need to follow the standard use. >> > > I'm not trying to use standard terms, I'm trying to use precise terms. My > intention is to give them a new and unprecedented use, just as anyone > breaking new ground uses language in a new way. > They laughed at Copernicus ... they laughed at Stephenson ... they laughed at Edison ... Seriously though, it might be a good idea to invent new terms if you need them, rather than using existing ones in a new and potentially confusing way. (Mind you I get confused with the existing ones used in the normal way, but that's another story.) -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
