On 12 Dec 2016, at 19:31, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 12/12/2016 3:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
it's just like seeing the storm as anger of the sky-god. People
experience anger, so they think they have understood the storm.
They don't understand fluid dynamics (at least until very recently).
I recall that such a type of belief does not work. The whole
physics prediction power is based on an identity link which does
not work.
It works pretty damn well in predicting storms.
Only by assuming non-computationalism, but then it is contradicted
with evolution theory, biology. It works in practice, but is flawed at
the fundamental level. I am not saying that this or that physics
theory is not working in practice, I am saying that physicalism is
wrong with mechanism/rationalism. To make physics coherent with
physicalism, you need to introduce actual infinities in both mind and
matter, and a univocal link between, which, at the level of
metaphysics or theology becomes as much invalid than an evocation to
God, which makes no sense in any theory, even theology.
And more importantly it can predict not-storms as well - unlike some
theories that predict everything.
A theory which predicts everything can be said inconsistent and have
zero interest, we agree. Thankfully, incompleteness saves Mechanism
from predicting everything. On the contrary it predicts many-worlds
and quantum logic. (in a large sense of "worlds", as they are only
computational histories).
Bruno
Brent
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