On 23 February 2014 19:38, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/23/2014 4:35 AM, David Nyman wrote: > > Not "my" consciousness, no. I'm just suggesting that CTM ultimately relies > on some transcendent notion of perspective itself. IOW, the sensible world > is conceived as the resultant of the inter-subjective agreement of its > possible observers, each of which discovers itself to be centred in some > perspective. > > > Is the sensible world of *possible* observers supposed to include the > whole world. >
Well, in a way I was merely stating a tautology: i.e. the "world" of inter-subjective agreement is just what we infer from those observations. I didn't mean to imply that such a world stands alone or is in need of no further explanation, quite the contrary. But a stable perspective on a sensible world, in something like this sense, is what comp, for example, assumes to be invariant to substitution at the relevant level. David I'm always suspicious of the word "possible". Does it refer to chance, > i.e. many events were possible, I might have had coffee instead of tea this > morning, but only a few are actual? Does it refer to anything not > prohibited by (our best theory of) physics: It's possible a meteorite might > strike my house? Or is it anything not entailing a contradiction: X and > not X? > Brent > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
