Re: (link) uni-verse, multi-verse, etc.

On 1/22/2017 7:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The physical reality is what emerges in the limit of a competition between infinities of universal numbers operating below our substitution level. But what does that mean? How do they "compete" and what are they competing for. What does "emerge"

Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God

On 22 Jan 2017, at 04:20, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: ​> ​You shouldn't be so hard on Greek physics. It's Aristotle and Plato's "physics" writings that happened to survive and could be interpreted as compatible with

Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God

On 22 Jan 2017, at 03:05, Brent Meeker wrote: On 1/21/2017 5:33 PM, John Clark wrote: ​ I respect Greek mathematics but Greek physics was a joke, a very bad joke ​that was held as dogma and kept physics from advancing for nearly two thousand years. And ​NOTHING comes from Greek

Re: An invisible fuzzy amoral mindless blob, aka God

On 21 Jan 2017, at 01:16, Brent Meeker wrote: The number machine Nu must be defined by some specific encoding. The polynomials depend on X and Nu. So what is an X and Nu for which they have a solution and what enumeration is phi_mu? The specific encoding is given by the polynomial

Re: (link) uni-verse, multi-verse, etc.

On 21 Jan 2017, at 09:29, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote: http://cosmos.nautil.us/feature/120/the-crisis-of-the-multiverse It begins to look like an understanding of the computationalist mind- body problem (the UD paradox/argument), except it misses computationalism, that is Turing,