On 3 March 2014 20:27, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > I find Tegmark's metaphysical speculations interesting, because he is at > least trying to get his head around the big questions, like why is there > something rather than nothing? In fact his is the *only* satisfactory > answer to that question I've ever come across, which is quite an > achievement, imho, even if it proves to be wrong. > > Tegmark fails to see that his "hypothesis" is a very old (even if ignored) > "theorem". >
You mean Plato's idea? If so, he has updated it somewhat. Or if not...? > And physics is not a mathematical structure among others, but a > psychological/theological phenomenon arising from computer-science laws, > that is arithmetical laws. > Well, imho Tegmark has a problem with consciousness in his theory, which he seems to rather brush over. (But in that he's doing no worse than the materialist, is he?) > It is a physicist progress in the comp's consequence, but we are far in > advance, in this list, to which Tegmark participated, but he missed both > philosophy of mind and logic. > If Max participated in this list then his theory doesnt look quite so clever! I didn't realise that. But he is at least popularising ideas that I assume are fairly esoteric for most people, even physicists and philosophers? Which I would think is a good thing? > Then a mistery: his last paper on consciousness regresses a lot from his > paper and book. He seems to still miss the FPI, even if Jason's quote of > Tegmark seems to show he get the step 3 that is the FPI, (but I explained > it to him, so his lack of reference is a bit sad from the human pov. He > follows a common tradition here, like Chalmers). > > You mean his idea about consciousness as a state of matter? I read the paper but I didn't really take much away from it in the end. He seemed to go off on a tangent (or several) and I got a bit confused. -- 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.
