On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:28:17PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > 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
I don't see why you would say physicalism needs to be assumed to explain the predictive power of physics. Particularly when the whole induction process is explained quite neatly with the Solomonoff-Levin universal prior and Bayes theorem over a multiversal set of events that naturally arises in the context of computationalism. > 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. > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
