On 12/30/2013 6:09 PM, LizR wrote:
On 31 December 2013 07:44, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
On 12/30/2013 2:07 AM, LizR wrote:
On 30 December 2013 21:02, Stephen Paul King <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear Bruno,
Why do you not consider an isomorphism between the Category
ofcomputer/universal-numbers and physical realities? That way we can
avoid a
lot of problems!
I think that it is because of your insistence of the Platonic view
that the
material/physical realm is somehow lesser in ontological status and the
assumption that a timeless totality = the appearance of change (and its
measures) is illusory. I would like to be wrong in this presumption!
The problem is that assuming the material / physical realm as fundamental
gets you
no further than assuming that "God did it!" It's a "shut up and calculate"
(or shut
up and pray) ontology.
With materialism you just have a "brute fact" - well, maybe that's it,
maybe there
/is /just a brute, unexplained fact. But us ape descended life forms like
to look
for explanations even beneath the apparent brute facts!
But "Everything happens" is just as useless as "God did it". A theory that
can
explain anything fails to explain at all.
It can't explain /anything/. It just says that all outcomes of the laws of physics are
instantiated. This requires less information than saying that a specific outcome of the
LOP is instantiated, assuming the LOP allow more than one outcome.
But I feel that you must already know this. Are you just being Devil's Advocate, or do
you honestly not see the usefulness of multiverse theories?
Stephen isn't talking about a multiverse as implied by physics, he's talking about an
immaterialist theory, a "timeless Platonic totality", which I can only suppose consists of
everything not self-contradictory or some such.
Brent
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