On 23 Jan 2014, at 07:35, meekerdb wrote:
On 1/22/2014 10:21 PM, LizR wrote:
The real world doesn't add raindrops, or most other things we think
of as entities - adding raindrops isn't 1+1, nature is really
adding something like 10^25 atoms to another 10^25. But it _does_
add bosons in a BEC. Even when the constituents are
indistinguishable, nature can perform simple arithmetic with them.
I'd say *we* perform simple arithmetic to describe them - but only
when we correctly recognize what is countable and what isn't. So
the truth of Ax(x=/=x+1) is in Platonia.
But the truth that 1 raindrop + 1 rain drop gives 1 raindrops might too.
The difficultys is to get the relevant definition of raindrop in
Platonia, and comp shows how (in principle, given that we don't yet a
definition of water, nor of space, etc.).
If there is no persistent perception of raindrops in Platonia-seen-
from-inside, comp can't be correct.
Bruno
Brent
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