On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 10:28:39AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 20 Aug 2019, at 19:38, Philip Thrift <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/20190823225404.GE2271%40zen.
