On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 2:46 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2018, at 23:33, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 4:21 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 19 Dec 2018, at 12:59, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dynamics is the study of matter in motion. There are no clocks in >> arithmetic. >> >> Of course there is clock. The successor function implements it out of >> time and space. >> > > The fact that you can use one ordered sequence to index another ordered > sequence does not constitute a clock. > > > But it is all you need to implement a clock similar to the one used in, > say, a von Neumann computer. > No, a clock is a physical device, not a sequence of imaginary objects. > > Nothing exists out of time and space, not even time and space themselves. > > Assuming such absolute space and time exists in some absolute way, and for > this you need to assume that the brain is not Turing emulable, and you are > out of working hypothesis. > You can have your hypothesis. But I am talking about what works in the world, not some arbitrary hypothesis. Bruce -- 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.
