On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 01:33:14PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 14 Jun 2014, at 12:13, Russell Standish wrote: > > >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? > > That could happen, but that could also not happen.
Then the proof is not false. > That cannot be > validly related to the proof found by Bruno and David in the UD, as > you can conceive that arithmetical truth is independent of the > presence of absence of primitive matter. > Of course, but if you so conceive, then presumably Bruno and David never correctly find a reason why primitive matter is needed. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

