On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 6:28 AM Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
*> Matter = observable* > Speed is observable, is speed matter? The qualia red is observable, is red matter? > > Primary matter is the doctrine by Aristotle > If I never hear another word about Aristotle I will not in any way feel deprived. > >A realm is primary if it cannot be reduced to some other field”. > OK *>May believe that biology is not primary, because it can be reduced > (apparently) to chemistry and physics. * > Yes > > *with Mechanism, physics is reducible to number theory or Turing > equivalent.* > No. You can't have a Turing Machine without a machine and you can't have a number theory, or a theory of any sort, without a brain made of matter. > *Digital Mechanism is the doctrine that there is a level of description > of our body such that we can survive with a (physical) digital brain or > body, if it faithfully represents our body’s functionality at that > description level.* > Digits are numbers so I guess you believe in Digital Mechanism, unless you believe there is something special about the atoms that happen to occupy your body right now so that they "cannot be reduced to some other field", that is to say unless you believe the matter in your body is primary. John K Clark -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
