If Darwinism may be said to have shown how the illusion of design may exist without need of a designer, we have still perhaps lacked an equivalently powerful form of explication that might show how the illusion of creativity could exist without need of invoking a creator. It has been claimed in some quarters that QM might provide such an explanation in that it purportedly allows for "something" to appear where there had previously been "nothing". This view is however open to criticism on the grounds of quibbling about the meaning of the terms employed.
It occurs to me however that the thrust of the computationalist explanation, independent of its other putative merits or defects, could be seen as tending in this direction. At least, if it cannot intelligibly be shown how something could arise from nothing, it is rather less puzzling how 0 might be followed by its successors. Indeed it makes little sense to quibble about this at least as an abstract point of departure. And this very point of departure is itself little more than we need to invoke the existence of a maximally-compact intensional widget, the unfolding extension of which, when filtered through the strenuous sieve of first-personal logic, may ultimately give rise to the entire perceptual panoply of concrete creativity. This kernel of creation, in its intensional and extensional forms, is of course what Bruno refers to as the UD and its trace. One might say, aphoristically, that arithmetic might be a maximally lazy creator's way of ensuring the implicit creation of everything without explicitly invoking anything other than one simple expression. And although the creative principle is maximally compressed within this single expression there is no way of discovering its concrete consequences other than inhabiting the infinite spaces of its expansion. Perhaps one could say with only a tinge of hyperbole that this may indeed be the divine route to knowledge. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
