> On 2 Mar 2020, at 14:02, Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 3:57:58 AM UTC-7, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 28 Feb 2020, at 23:03, Alan Grayson <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> wrote: >> >> Among the infinite possibilities for the gravitational force, why, in the >> context of your theory, do we live in the world that apparently obeys the >> one consistent with Newton and Einstein? TIA, AG > > I will answer this tomorrow. > > Bruno > > I might have missed it. Please answer the above question here, keeping in > mind that the gravity formula in our world must have zero probability, given > the infinity of hypothetical equations. TIA, AG
I suggest we do this little step by little step. OK? It might help others too. The 0th step is the definition I gave of Mechanism (aka Indexical Digital Mechanism). It is, as I think you have understood, the assumption that the brain/body works like a digital, or digitalisable machine, and that we can survive, at some relevant level of description, with an artificial digital body/brain. At this stage, the artificial brain is still physically implemented. That is what I will call step 0. You are not asked if you personally believe or not, in this. It is my basic assumption, from which, by reasoning, I will explain what you ask. More precisely, Mechanism is 1) the Church Turing thesis (but this is used only in step seven, so don’t worry too much about it, before we get there). It is needed to obtain the purely mathematical definition of digital machine. Note that the Church-Turing thesis requires elementary arithmetic to make sense. I hope that you have no problem with 2+2=4, nor with deriving from "2+2=4" that "it exists a number x such that x + 2 = 4", OK? 2) it exists a level of description of my body such that I can survive with a digital artificial brain/body. I will just say brain, but if someone claim that the neural network in the belly plays a key role in his consciousness, the “artificial brain” will have to emulate that neural net too. The thought experiments are simpler when assuming a high level of description (like the neuronal level), but in step seven, this suppelemtary hypothesis will be discharged. The consequences will not depend on the choice of the substitution level. The brain might be the entire cluster of galaxies around us, described by superstring theory, with 10^34 decimals, and the reasoning will still go through, even if the shout experiment becomes unfeasible. Any question up to here? Bruno > > -- > 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/11a3ce89-b59c-4c87-9b4d-1e60627b3ee2%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/11a3ce89-b59c-4c87-9b4d-1e60627b3ee2%40googlegroups.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/407A03D5-EC15-4D2C-A538-E8D316BEE1FE%40ulb.ac.be.
