On 22 January 2015 at 08:22, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
Because with sufficiently big infinity in both mind and matter, you can a > priori singularize the experience and the body in a way such that > duplication is no more possible, and there is no more FPI, and we can use > the old identity thesis brain-mind. But what exactly is a "sufficiently big infinity in both mind and matter"? By the way, the claim of Stathis's I was referring to was when he said that, even assuming mechanism, a doubter could still ask (of comp) 'why couldn't it all just be dumb arithmetic?'. It's a good question. My rejoinder is that it could indeed just be dumb arithmetic, but should that be the case, the consequence would be the loss of the entire putative epistemology. Only the bare 'arithmetical ontology' would remain. No physics, no people, no zombies, just numbers. I guess it's easy to be blind to the fact that everything else, beyond the basic ontological assumptions of comp, is essentially epistemological. As I see it, the fundamental 'intensional' assumption of the comp ontology is that nothing more than basic arithmetical relations are required to emulate computation (which itself is closely related to Turing's conceptualisation of a universal computational 'machine'). The basic 'extensional' assumption is then the UD, or more properly its infinite trace UD*. Beyond this basic ontology, ISTM, everything else that purportedly 'exists' is, provisionally, a question of epistemology. That question can only be definitely settled if such putative 'knowledge' can be shown to be possessed, in actuality, by whomsoever asserts a truthful claim to it. Otherwise, it is still merely lurking as an abstract possibility in the infinite wastes of mechanistic extension. The answer can only be found with reference to truth; IOW what follows if one treats the analytic entailment of such mechanistic 'possibilities' seriously *as an actuality*. This is what makes truth-denial in this case catastrophically self-defeating; any such defeat is tantamount to a total demolition of the domain of reference of the entire putative epistemology. David -- 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.
