> On 15 Sep 2019, at 19:16, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 3:24 PM Philip Thrift <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > I really couldn't follow this paper - many worlds (of QM) vs. multiverse > > (of cosmology) seemed all mixed up. > > I think the guy is a bit of an idiot. He starts off badly by equating > intelligence and consciousness and then it gets worse when he defines the > personal pronoun "I" by what will happen in the future rather than what > actually happened in the past. And that was all in the first paragraph, I > didn't read any further.
But “I” is used in statement concerning the future, or you could not say “I didn’t read any further”. There is of course no problem at all with having two different future, that happens to amoeba all the time, and to anyone in a quantum reality (without collapse). But the paper is just coherent globally. He defends weak materialism (rather implicitly, yet clearly), so it is mandatory to abandon Mechanism. Bruno > > John K Clark > > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2a56MLs%2B_8U5MS3HxcVwyeT6_itGMdJ92YsNti%2BFp%3DgQ%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2a56MLs%2B_8U5MS3HxcVwyeT6_itGMdJ92YsNti%2BFp%3DgQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/F093BB24-9EAB-4E71-ABB3-A4D605047CD0%40ulb.ac.be.
