On 05 Feb 2014, at 13:02, [email protected] wrote:
Instead, it [the MUH] optimistically suggests that consciousness can one day be understood as a form of matter, forming the most beautifully complex structure in space and time that our universe has ever known.
This seem so weird to me. The main reason why mathematicalism is plausible is that consciousness seems to be not material (and cannot be with comp).
I guess your question comes from the fact that here Tegmark refer to a big infinite mathematics (in which mathematicians do no more believe as indeed it is too much infinite) and in your other post Tegmark seems to reject infinity. Apparently to survive comp (without mentioning).
Ah! with comp we can bet that reality is in between, the finite and the infinite; the computable and the non computable, etc.
Comp rejects actual infinities in the ontology, but keep them in the epistemologies. It keeps the potential infinity in the ontology though.
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