> On 17 Aug 2018, at 21:27, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/17/2018 2:01 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>> 
>>> On 16 Aug 2018, at 20:50, Brent Meeker <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 8/16/2018 3:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 15 Aug 2018, at 21:33, Brent Meeker <[email protected] 
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 8/15/2018 2:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>>>>>>> And you have not recovered the quantitative aspect of the quantum 
>>>>>>> structure,
>>>>>> I did at the propositional level, which is enough to have the quantum 
>>>>>> logic. It is richer than the quantum logic of the physicians, so this 
>>>>>> predicts new things. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> What are they?
>>>> 
>>>> The consequence of the Löb’s formula translated in the quantum logical 
>>>> terms. Those are long and ugly formula, still beyond the reach of my (old) 
>>>> theorem prover.
>>> 
>>> So they are not testable.
>> 
>> ?
>> 
>> Some are testable and tested, and some are not *yet* derived, and thus not 
>> tested, but they are testable of course. Not sure how you arrive at your 
>> conclusion.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> because you have not defined a measure on the computations of the UD.
>>>>>> Not yet, but I am willing to hear some constructive suggestion to 
>>>>>> progress. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Then how can you claim to have recovered quantum mechanics if you cannot 
>>>>> even define a probability amplitude that is linear?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Because I have recovered enough to classify those logics as quantum logic.
>>> 
>>> That's a far cry from quantum mechanics.
>> 
>> But the UDA shows that if we don’t get quantum mechanics, it has to be 
>> false, or mechanism is false. The whole point is that we can test this.
>> 
>> The goal is to get a coherent picture in the computationalist frame. 
>> Physicalism is *already* refuted.
> 
> No.  It is only your version of physicalism that is refuted.  The assumption 
> that what is physical cannot account for what is mental because the mental is 
> substrate independent and therefore is independent of all substrate.  The 
> last doesn't follow.


What is a substrate? How you test its primary existence? How does a substrate 
select a computation, given the mechanist first person indeterminacy ?

Bruno




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