Changled title again, as this has wandered a lot from tronnies. On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10:08:08AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > If there were a reason why a primitive matter was needed (to select > and incarnate consciousness), there would be number X and Nu which > would emulate validly "Brunos and Davids" finding that reason, and > proving *correctly* that they don't belong only to arithmetic, which > would be false, and that is a mathematical contradiction, even if
Why is it false? Why couldn't the numbers X and Nu belong both to arithmetic and the primitive matter? > those Davids and Brunos are zombies. That makes physicalism just > logically incompatible with mechanism (and that argument is simpler > than step 8). > > Bruno > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > 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/d/optout. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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/d/optout.
