> On 21 Oct 2018, at 18:12, Tomas Pales <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 5:52:13 PM UTC+2, Philip Thrift wrote: > > If our universe does not have infinitely-computing objects but there are > other universes that do, that would seem strange. > > Why would our universe be left out? :) > > > The mathematical multiverse would contain all possible (consistently defined) > mathematical structures, both finite and infinite. We would live in a finite > one. Why? I don't know. Maybe just by accident. Or maybe only finite > structures can contain conscious entities.
By the first person indeterminacy; the finite structures are multiplied on infinitely many computations, which explains why there is a measure problem, already in arithmetic, when we do the mechanist assumption (in cognitive science, not in physics). Bruno > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list > <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- 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.
