On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:23:14AM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > Craig, > > I also suspect Bruno's math skills are superior to mine, but his > understanding of the place of math in reality seems pretty deficient, or > perhaps just rigid. > > As I've pointed out his 8 steps may well be mathematically consistent but > that doesn't mean they have anything to do with the fundamental structure > of reality at all. To meaningfully apply a purely mathematical or logical > proof to reality, one must establish an actual correspondence of the > variables in the proof to actual variables of reality. I don't see Bruno > doing that at all.
The strength of Bruno's approach is that that is implicit in the assumption of COMP. Once you assume that one's consciousness can be implemented by a computation, then necessarily ontological reality (whatever that is) can also be implemented by a computation. This is a simple consequence of the Church thesis. > > There is no way that anything happens in his static Platonia. And there is > no method of selecting the structure of our actual universe from what is > apparently his all possible universes. > > He told us his theory doesn't predict the fine tuning, as this type of > theory must, because the fine tuning is not important in hi view. > It is not important for the UDA. But it is, nevertheless, not inconsistent with the Anthropic Principle either. Bruno would say it is necessary for the manifestation of other conciousnesses to us. I reserve my judgement on this... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
