On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 4:09 AM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 12:14 AM Russell Standish <[email protected]> > wrote: > > *> * >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *This is all different from John Clark's argument that something >> mustexist to breathe fire into all the computations. He calls thatsomething >> "matter", and strongly disavows the ability of arithmetic todo this. Bruno >> Marchal claims the opposite - that arithmetic, or infact any abstract >> system capable of universal computation, issufficient for the job. To be >> quite frank, I'm a fence sitter in thisdebate, as I've yet to see any >> physically realisable experiment thatcan settle the matter.* > > > I have. Add 2 +2 on your computer. Observe the output. Hit your computer > as hard as you can with the hammer. Add 2 +2 on your computer again. > Observe if the output has changed. Note that a hammer can change physical > things but can't change arithmetic. > > >From this logic we can conclude that past points in time belong in arithmetic (since we can't change it, and it doesn't change). Jason -- 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/CA%2BBCJUhKnGqiDBkOgwpp25vNqbLcxkaCgAAKDBFKa16Xk4GQZA%40mail.gmail.com.
