On 15 Jan 2015, at 20:14, meekerdb wrote:
On 1/15/2015 8:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Do you believe in a source of reality beyond the apparent
physical reality we find ourselves in now?
No. I don't "believe IN" anything. I entertain hypotheses.
Good. But you don't always talk like that. Sometimes it looks like
you do believe that our origin is physical.
You only think that because I don't believe IN Platonism.
Nor do I, as a scientist. As a scientist I assume the number 0, the
successor, addition, and multiplication law only. In the TOE, nothing
more is assumed, except for predicate calculus.
In that theory I define a notion of rational belief, and show that
ideally rational and sound machines have a theology isomorphic to
Plotinus neo-platonism. It is testable as greek theology contains
physics, and so we can compare that aspect of machine theology with
what we can infer from observation.
What I wanted to say is that sometimes you talk like you take for
granted weak materialism, if not physicalism.
Bruno
Brent
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