On 10/26/2019 1:45 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 25 Oct 2019, at 23:58, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
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On 10/25/2019 5:12 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
The genuine problem is that if consciousness is produce by a digital mechanism,
then there is an infinity of mechanism which produces it, and the theory of
matter has to become a statistics on personal (or first person plural personal)
histories (computations involving Löbian machines).
In materialism there are no infinities. They are just Platonic pipe dreams.
In mechanism there is no infinities.
Then stop referring to "an infinity of mechanism which produces it".
The infinities are phenomenological.
There are no infinities in phenomenon either.
Analysis is as much part of the machine phenomenology than physics. No real
numbers!
It is the materialist which needs infinities and a lot of magic to associate my
consciousness to one machine in arithmetic, and not to the potential infinitely
I'm glad you recognize there's a difference between "potential" and
"real"; a distinction this list is founded to obfuscate.
Brent
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