Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-01 Thread Brent Meeker
On 10/1/2018 12:32 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 6:14:22 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 9/30/2018 7:58 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 5:05:27 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 30 Sep 2018, at 08:03, Philip Thrift

The language of nature, and the nature of language

2018-10-01 Thread Philip Thrift
https://aeon.co/essays/words-have-soul-on-the-romantic-theory-of-language-origin "Words channel the vitality of the natural world. They have soul because nature does...it is only because we are embedded in nature...that science can be done. The idea of the scientist standing outside of nature

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-01 Thread agrayson2000
On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 5:26:18 PM UTC, kujawski...@gmail.com wrote: > > Agrays: >> >> I don't see how Bruno answered your question when he misstated and >> doesn't understand the MUH. Yet you thank him and not me. AG >> > > No, I thanked everybody in this topic in my earlier message,

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-01 Thread kujawskilucjan85
Agrays: > > I don't see how Bruno answered your question when he misstated and doesn't > understand the MUH. Yet you thank him and not me. AG > No, I thanked everybody in this topic in my earlier message, and here I thanked Bruno not for answer about MUH but about Gerald Edelman movie.

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-01 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 2:59 PM Brent Meeker wrote: *>It has been estimated that simulating a single neuron requires a > micro-controller like an AVR, which contains 80,000 transistors.* And 4 years ago in 2014 the human race manufactured 2.5 * 10^20 transistors, that works out to 8 trillion

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-01 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 2:26 PM Philip Thrift wrote: > I think (along with Philip Goff*) that physics is not complete in its > study of matter. > That is very true, today physics has no idea what Dark Energy or Dark Matter is and they make up 95% of the matter/energy in the universe. And

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-01 Thread agrayson2000
On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 11:47:47 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 30 Sep 2018, at 16:30, Philip Thrift > > wrote: > > > > On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 4:50:01 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> [Re:] forcing theory in set theories with classes. >> >> >> Bruno >> >> >> > Do you

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 30 Sep 2018, at 16:30, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 4:50:01 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > [Re:] forcing theory in set theories with classes. > > > Bruno > > > > Do you follow the work of Joel David Hamkins (forcing applied to > set-theoretic

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 30 Sep 2018, at 13:42, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > On Thursday, September 27, 2018 at 8:02:36 PM UTC-5, kujawski...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hello I think this good forum for this topic - what do you think about > Mathematical Universe, there are very big arguments for that hypothesis: >

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-01 Thread Philip Thrift
On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 6:14:22 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 9/30/2018 7:58 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 5:05:27 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 30 Sep 2018, at 08:03, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> *What is a computer?* >> >> A