On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 10:28:39AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 20 Aug 2019, at 19:38, Philip Thrift <cloudver...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The reason to suspect that arithmetic comes from matter (M→A) vs. matter > comes from arithmetic (A→M) is that with A→M there many Ms. > > > On the contrary: Arithmetic (A) explains why there is many geographies and > history, but only one physics, the same fr all universal machine. That is due > to the fact that Physics (Matter, M) emerges from the first person > indeterminacy on *all* computations. > So A explains why there is only one M possible, and why the physical reality > is > the same for all universal machine/number. > With A, the physical laws are justified being laws, and we get some criteria > (lacking in physics+physicalism) to distinguish physics and geography.
This answer is a bit glib IMHO. In some ways it echos the statements I give in section 9.3 of my book "Theory of Nothing", but which I freely admitted I felt were provisional and too hand-wavy. However, I believe that Markus Mueller has since provided an answer in the form of a theorem (Thm 2.3 "Emergence of an Objective Reality") in his paper arXiv: 1712.01816. That paper to me is probably the most significant result in this area since I published my book. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/20190823225404.GE2271%40zen.
