> On 10 Mar 2021, at 13:05, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 6:45 PM spudboy100 via Everything List > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > I kind of side with Canadian philosopher John Leslie, as well as British > > astronomer, James Jeans on this question. Both Leslie and Jeans see the > > cosmos as a Great Thought. I formalize their conjectures as a Great > > Program. One may ask, running on what? > > > There's only one thing it could be running on, the laws of physics.
This cannot work. Years ago, I would have said “this cannot work unless you defend an ultra-finitist (and fictionalist) theory of machine, but eventually I have shown that even such a weird conception of machine cannot help to escape the necessity to reduce physics to a finitist (but non ultrafinitist) theory of mind. When we assume Mechanism, we can no more invoke an ontological commitment richer than “very elementary arithmetic”. The Aristotelian God (Matter, with a big M to say that it is not reducible to simpler) cannot exist, in fact cannot make any sense. Bruno > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > > > -- > 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/CAJPayv1RmwztO04e3ZhnkRtAN%3DVJLC2TZ1xDo41H8Rpmhhdrtg%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1RmwztO04e3ZhnkRtAN%3DVJLC2TZ1xDo41H8Rpmhhdrtg%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/34D44DD4-9B4F-43D9-8ADF-76326F2DB884%40ulb.ac.be.
