On 15 June 2015 at 14:19, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote:
> > It is plausible that regularities are a required feature of > conscious existence > This seems very likely, but it does assume something like a string landscape in which some regions don't contain regularities. Or to put it another way, regions in which maths doesn't work. This seems to be out-Tegmarking Tegmark, who assumes that at least maths is (meta-) universal. > > At this stage, it's no worse than assuming meaning generation is a > necessary feature of existence, and that this can only take place by > compression of regularities, which is the Solomonoff type answer... > > That would require a source of such regularities, surely? But that would seem to lead straight back to requiring that maths works. -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
