Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-27 Thread Tomas Pales
On Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 5:41:22 PM UTC+2, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 3:20:23 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 5:40 PM wrote: >> >> *> the concept of a plane wave, one of the solutions of Maxwell's >>> equations. It certai

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-27 Thread agrayson2000
On Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 3:20:23 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 5:40 PM > wrote: > > *> the concept of a plane wave, one of the solutions of Maxwell's >> equations. It certainly doesn't exist in THIS universe* > > > I agree with the general point you're trying to m

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-27 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 5:40 PM wrote: *> the concept of a plane wave, one of the solutions of Maxwell's > equations. It certainly doesn't exist in THIS universe* I agree with the general point you're trying to make, just because something can be consistently described mathematically doesn't pr

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-27 Thread Tomas Pales
On Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 2:55:57 AM UTC+2, Brent wrote: > > > Logical consistency is a relation between sentences. It's not about > existence. The sentences might be about the existence of something, but > that's different. Or the sentences may have variables quantified by > existen

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-26 Thread Philip Thrift
On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 7:55:57 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 10/26/2018 1:03 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 2:33:13 PM UTC-5, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 8:06:03 PM UTC+2, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> >>> >>> OK. But it

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-26 Thread Brent Meeker
On 10/26/2018 1:14 PM, Tomas Pales wrote: On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 10:03:07 PM UTC+2, Philip Thrift wrote: On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 2:33:13 PM UTC-5, Tomas Pales wrote: On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 8:06:03 PM UTC+2, Bruno Marchal wrote: OK

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-26 Thread Brent Meeker
On 10/26/2018 1:03 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 2:33:13 PM UTC-5, Tomas Pales wrote: On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 8:06:03 PM UTC+2, Bruno Marchal wrote: OK. But it seemed to me you said that is better not to make unnecessary assumption.

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-26 Thread Tomas Pales
On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 11:59:28 PM UTC+2, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > As a practical matter though, AI and agent programmers have to deal with > inconsistent information in the world: > > https://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn/2013/632319/ > https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02851 > https://www.s

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-26 Thread Philip Thrift
On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 3:14:05 PM UTC-5, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 10:03:07 PM UTC+2, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 2:33:13 PM UTC-5, Tomas Pales wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 8:06:03 PM UTC+2, Bruno

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-26 Thread agrayson2000
On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 7:36:15 PM UTC, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 8:25:30 PM UTC+2, agrays...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 9:32:04 AM UTC, agrays...@gmail.com >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 1:0

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-26 Thread Tomas Pales
On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 10:03:07 PM UTC+2, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 2:33:13 PM UTC-5, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 8:06:03 PM UTC+2, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> >>> >>> OK. But it seemed to me you said that is better not to m

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-26 Thread Philip Thrift
On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 2:33:13 PM UTC-5, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 8:06:03 PM UTC+2, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> OK. But it seemed to me you said that is better not to make unnecessary >> assumption. >> > > My only ontological assumption is that existenc

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-26 Thread Tomas Pales
On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 8:25:30 PM UTC+2, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 9:32:04 AM UTC, agrays...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 1:02:36 AM UTC, kujawski...@gmail.com >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello I think this good forum fo

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-26 Thread Tomas Pales
On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 8:06:03 PM UTC+2, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > OK. But it seemed to me you said that is better not to make unnecessary > assumption. > My only ontological assumption is that existence is logical consistency. This assumption gives rise to the set-theoretic multivers

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-26 Thread agrayson2000
On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 9:32:04 AM UTC, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 1:02:36 AM UTC, 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

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Tomas, > as I see it, my ontology, whose relational aspect is defined by the relation > of similarity (and its special kinds - instantiation and composition), > includes your ontology, because pure set theory includes arithmetic. OK. But it seemed to me you said that is better not to make

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-25 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 3:47:39 PM UTC-5, Tomas Pales wrote: > > Bruno, > > as I see it, my ontology, whose relational aspect is defined by the > relation of similarity (and its special kinds - instantiation and > composition), includes your ontology, because pure set theory includes

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-24 Thread Tomas Pales
Bruno, as I see it, my ontology, whose relational aspect is defined by the relation of similarity (and its special kinds - instantiation and composition), includes your ontology, because pure set theory includes arithmetic. You may be right that arithmetic is sufficient to define physics but r

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Thomas, Sorry for the delay, busy days, see the mail only now. > On 22 Oct 2018, at 19:15, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Monday, October 22, 2018 at 1:41:23 PM UTC+2, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > The computable universe hypothesis cannot make sense. To define “computable” > you need to assu

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-22 Thread Tomas Pales
On Monday, October 22, 2018 at 1:41:23 PM UTC+2, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > The computable universe hypothesis cannot make sense. To define > “computable” you need to assume arithmetic. But arithmetic executes all > computations, and the measure problem will have to involve infinities. > So the

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 21 Oct 2018, at 21:59, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 11:30:54 AM UTC-5, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 5:22:20 PM UTC+2, Philip Thrift wrote: > > BTW, on "non-relations [which] are the non-mathematical objects and they (or > at l

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 21 Oct 2018, at 18:30, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 5:22:20 PM UTC+2, Philip Thrift wrote: > > BTW, on "non-relations [which] are the non-mathematical objects and they (or > at least some of them) may be the qualities of consciousness (qualia)", that > is

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 21 Oct 2018, at 18:12, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 5:52:13 PM UTC+2, Philip Thrift wrote: > > If our universe does not have infinitely-computing objects but there are > other universes that do, that would seem strange. > > Why would our universe be left ou

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 21 Oct 2018, at 17:43, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 4:28:21 PM UTC+2, Philip Thrift wrote: > > "reality contains all mathematical objects" > > > Ironically, Tegmark doesn't believe that at all. He says infinite > mathematical entities are "ruining ph

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-22 Thread Tomas Pales
On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 11:16:29 PM UTC+2, Brent wrote: > > > > On 10/21/2018 7:11 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: > > I am generally sympathetic to Tegmark's mathematical multiverse idea, but > I have two comments/criticisms to it: > > 1) I am not sure whether Tegmark is aware of the so-called "i

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-21 Thread Brent Meeker
On 10/21/2018 7:11 AM, Tomas Pales wrote: I am generally sympathetic to Tegmark's mathematical multiverse idea, but I have two comments/criticisms to it: 1) I am not sure whether Tegmark is aware of the so-called "instantiation" relation. In philosophy, the instantiation relation is the rel

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-21 Thread Philip Thrift
On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 11:30:54 AM UTC-5, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 5:22:20 PM UTC+2, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> BTW, on "non-relations [which] are the non-mathematical objects and they >> (or at least some of them) may be the qualities of consciousnes

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-21 Thread Tomas Pales
On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 5:22:20 PM UTC+2, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > BTW, on "non-relations [which] are the non-mathematical objects and they > (or at least some of them) may be the qualities of consciousness (qualia)", > that is what I try to address in > > https://codicalist.

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-21 Thread Tomas Pales
On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 5:52:13 PM UTC+2, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > If our universe does not have infinitely-computing objects but there are > other universes that do, that would seem strange. > > Why would our universe be left out? :) > > The mathematical multiverse would contain all po

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-21 Thread Philip Thrift
On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 10:43:28 AM UTC-5, Tomas Pales wrote: > > > > On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 4:28:21 PM UTC+2, Philip Thrift wrote: > >> >> "reality contains all mathematical objects" >> >> >> Ironically, Tegmark doesn't believe that at all. He says infinite >> mathematical

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-21 Thread Tomas Pales
On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 4:28:21 PM UTC+2, Philip Thrift wrote: > > "reality contains all mathematical objects" > > > Ironically, Tegmark doesn't believe that at all. He says infinite > mathematical entities are "ruining physics". > - > http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/0

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-21 Thread Philip Thrift
On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 9:28:21 AM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 9:11:03 AM UTC-5, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> I am generally sympathetic to Tegmark's mathematical multiverse idea, but >> I have two comments/criticisms to it: >> >> 1) I am not sure whethe

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-21 Thread Philip Thrift
On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 9:11:03 AM UTC-5, Tomas Pales wrote: > > I am generally sympathetic to Tegmark's mathematical multiverse idea, but > I have two comments/criticisms to it: > > 1) I am not sure whether Tegmark is aware of the so-called "instantiation" > relation. In philosophy, the

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-21 Thread Tomas Pales
I am generally sympathetic to Tegmark's mathematical multiverse idea, but I have two comments/criticisms to it: 1) I am not sure whether Tegmark is aware of the so-called "instantiation" relation. In philosophy, the instantiation relation is the relation between a general and a particular objec

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 4 Oct 2018, at 18:51, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 10/4/2018 12:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> You need a universal machinery. Very elementary arithmetic (like Peano >> without induction) determines such a universal machinery (the phi_i), then, >> you get all the universal number u (s

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 4 Oct 2018, at 12:57, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Thursday, October 4, 2018 at 2:06:30 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 3 Oct 2018, at 22:07, Philip Thrift > >> wrote: >> >> >> Suppose one starts with the PLTOS template: >> >> PLTOS(π,λ,τ,ο,Σ) designates a program π that is

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-04 Thread Brent Meeker
On 10/4/2018 12:06 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: You need a universal machinery. Very elementary arithmetic (like Peano without induction) determines such a universal machinery (the phi_i), then, you get all the universal number u (such that phi_u(x,y) = phi_x(y), and each u defines its own univer

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-04 Thread Philip Thrift
On Thursday, October 4, 2018 at 2:06:30 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 3 Oct 2018, at 22:07, Philip Thrift > > wrote: > > > Suppose one starts with the PLTOS template: > > PLTOS(π,λ,τ,ο,Σ) designates a program π that is written in a language λ > that is transformed via a compiler/assem

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 3 Oct 2018, at 22:07, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 2:54:46 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 2 Oct 2018, at 17:11, Philip Thrift > >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 9:25:17 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 2 Oct 2018,

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-03 Thread Philip Thrift
On Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 2:54:46 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 2 Oct 2018, at 17:11, Philip Thrift > > wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 9:25:17 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 2 Oct 2018, at 09:53, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, October 2,

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 2 Oct 2018, at 17:11, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 9:25:17 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 2 Oct 2018, at 09:53, Philip Thrift > >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 2:20:10 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 1 Oct 2018, at

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-02 Thread Philip Thrift
On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 9:25:17 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 2 Oct 2018, at 09:53, Philip Thrift > > wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 2:20:10 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 1 Oct 2018, at 14:20, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Monday, October

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 2 Oct 2018, at 10:14, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 7:20:10 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 1 Oct 2018, at 14:20, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 11:47:47 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 30 Sep 20

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 2 Oct 2018, at 09:53, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 2:20:10 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 1 Oct 2018, at 14:20, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 11:47:47 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 30 Sep 2018, at

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-02 Thread agrayson2000
On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 7:20:10 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 1 Oct 2018, at 14:20, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > 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,

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-02 Thread Philip Thrift
On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 2:20:10 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 1 Oct 2018, at 14:20, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > 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

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 1 Oct 2018, at 14:20, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > 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

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-10-01 Thread Philip Thrift
On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 8:33:10 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > 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

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

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, an

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 tr

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 physics

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 "mul

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 compu

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Brent Meeker
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 computer is a device that executes programs. If we can synthesize bacteria that ex

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Philip Thrift
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 computer is a device that executes programs. > > If we can synthesize bacteria that execute programs (which we can do), > then these

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Philip Thrift
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 "multiverse", etc.) (I have a basic idea of a type-theoretic parallel

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Lawrence Crowell
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: > > - applicability of mathematic, to natural sciences > - all we

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 30 Sep 2018, at 11:58, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 9:40:07 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 29 Sep 2018, at 13:34, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 7:16:41 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 2

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 30 Sep 2018, at 11:53, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 9:35:18 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 29 Sep 2018, at 13:16, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 10:41:42 AM UTC, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >>

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread agrayson2000
On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 9:53:06 AM UTC, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 9:35:18 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 29 Sep 2018, at 13:16, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 10:41:42 AM UTC, Philip Thrift wro

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 30 Sep 2018, at 08:41, kujawskilucja...@gmail.com wrote: > > Bruno Marchal thank you for your anwser. > > Physicist Paul Benioff make interesting idea > https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0201093 > that mathematics and laws of physics coemerged somehow randomly. I will take a look, but pro

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 30 Sep 2018, at 08:03, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 12:30:33 AM UTC-5, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 9:28:34 PM UTC, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 3:53:04 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > >

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 30 Sep 2018, at 07:30, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 9:28:34 PM UTC, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 3:53:04 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > On 9/29/2018 1:45 PM, agrays...@gmail.com <> wrote: >> >> >> On Saturday,

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 29 Sep 2018, at 22:52, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 9/29/2018 1:45 PM, agrayson2...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> >> On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 8:07:12 PM UTC, Brent wrote: >> >> >> On 9/29/2018 4:34 AM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >>> A bacteria

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread agrayson2000
On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 9:40:07 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 29 Sep 2018, at 13:34, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 7:16:41 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 28 Sep 2018, at 21:00, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, Se

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 29 Sep 2018, at 20:59, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 9/29/2018 12:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 28 Sep 2018, at 21:00, agrayson2...@gmail.com >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 6:49:37 PM UTC, kujawski...@gmail.com >>

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread agrayson2000
On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 9:35:18 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 29 Sep 2018, at 13:16, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 10:41:42 AM UTC, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 4:48:44 AM UTC-5, agrays...@gmail.com

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 29 Sep 2018, at 14:59, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 6:34:15 AM UTC-5, agrays...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 7:16:41 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > A bacteria is already a computer (at least), > > > Really? Then

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 29 Sep 2018, at 13:34, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 7:16:41 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 28 Sep 2018, at 21:00, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 6:49:37 PM UTC, kujawski...@gmail.com >>

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 29 Sep 2018, at 13:16, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 10:41:42 AM UTC, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 4:48:44 AM UTC-5, agrays...@gmail.com <> > wrote: > It claims that all mathematical objects exist in "physical"

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 29 Sep 2018, at 12:41, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 4:48:44 AM UTC-5, agrays...@gmail.com > wrote: > It claims that all mathematical objects exist in "physical" reality, which > is sort-of isomorphic or in some sense identical to these objects. That i

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 29 Sep 2018, at 11:48, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 9:22:30 AM UTC, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 8:57:54 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 29 Sep 2018, at 09:16, agrays...@gmail.com <> wrote: >> >> >

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 29 Sep 2018, at 11:33, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > The arithmeticalist thinks matter is fiction. > The materialist thinks arithmetic is fiction. > > That's all I know. :) Good summary. My result is that Mechanism (the idea that my body is Turing emulable at a level of description rel

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 29 Sep 2018, at 11:22, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 8:57:54 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 29 Sep 2018, at 09:16, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 6:40:05 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-30 Thread Philip Thrift
On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 1:41:43 AM UTC-5, kujawski...@gmail.com wrote: > > Bruno Marchal thank you for your anwser. > > Physicist Paul Benioff make interesting idea > https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0201093 > that mathematics and laws of physics coemerged somehow randomly. > Thanks

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread agrayson2000
On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 6:48:14 AM UTC, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 6:41:43 AM UTC, kujawski...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> Bruno Marchal thank you for your anwser. >> >> Physicist Paul Benioff make interesting idea >> https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread agrayson2000
On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 6:41:43 AM UTC, kujawski...@gmail.com wrote: > > Bruno Marchal thank you for your anwser. > > Physicist Paul Benioff make interesting idea > https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0201093 > that mathematics and laws of physics coemerged somehow randomly. > You wanted

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread kujawskilucjan85
Bruno Marchal thank you for your anwser. Physicist Paul Benioff make interesting idea https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0201093 that mathematics and laws of physics coemerged somehow randomly. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group.

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread Philip Thrift
On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 1:03:12 AM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 12:30:33 AM UTC-5, agrays...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 9:28:34 PM UTC, Philip Thrift wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread agrayson2000
On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 8:53:04 PM UTC, Brent wrote: > > > > On 9/29/2018 1:45 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 8:07:12 PM UTC, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 9/29/2018 4:34 AM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> A bacteria is already a computer (a

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread Philip Thrift
On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 12:30:33 AM UTC-5, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 9:28:34 PM UTC, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 3:53:04 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 9/29/2018 1:45 PM, agrays...@gmail.com w

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread agrayson2000
On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 9:28:34 PM UTC, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 3:53:04 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 9/29/2018 1:45 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 8:07:12 PM UTC, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread Philip Thrift
On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 3:53:04 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 9/29/2018 1:45 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 8:07:12 PM UTC, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 9/29/2018 4:34 AM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> A bacteria is already a computer

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread Brent Meeker
On 9/29/2018 1:45 PM, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 8:07:12 PM UTC, Brent wrote: On 9/29/2018 4:34 AM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: A bacteria is already a computer (at least), *Really? Then you should be able to identify the entities

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread agrayson2000
On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 8:07:12 PM UTC, Brent wrote: > > > > On 9/29/2018 4:34 AM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > A bacteria is already a computer (at least), >> > > > *Really? Then you should be able to identify the entities that store > binary information. And where is the clock w

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread Brent Meeker
On 9/29/2018 4:34 AM, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: A bacteria is already a computer (at least), *Really? Then you should be able to identify the entities that store binary information. And where is the clock which pulses and advances the instruction pointer? And where is the instruct

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread Brent Meeker
On 9/29/2018 12:16 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Sep 2018, at 21:00, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 6:49:37 PM UTC, kujawski...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you everybody for your responses. Bruno Ma

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread Philip Thrift
On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 6:34:15 AM UTC-5, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 7:16:41 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> >> A bacteria is already a computer (at least), >> > > > *Really? Then you should be able to identify the entities that store

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread Philip Thrift
On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 6:16:26 AM UTC-5, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 10:41:42 AM UTC, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 4:48:44 AM UTC-5, agrays...@gmail.com >> wrote: >>> >>> * It claims that all mathematic

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread agrayson2000
On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 7:16:41 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 28 Sep 2018, at 21:00, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 6:49:37 PM UTC, kujawski...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> >> Thank you everybody for your responses. >> >> Bruno Marchal I lo

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread agrayson2000
On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 10:41:42 AM UTC, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 4:48:44 AM UTC-5, agrays...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> * It claims that all mathematical objects exist in "physical" reality, >> which is sort-of isomorphic or in some sense identic

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread Philip Thrift
On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 4:48:44 AM UTC-5, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > * It claims that all mathematical objects exist in "physical" reality, > which is sort-of isomorphic or in some sense identical to these objects. > That is, no dichotomy between "physical" and mathematical obje

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread agrayson2000
On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 9:22:30 AM UTC, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 8:57:54 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 29 Sep 2018, at 09:16, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 6:40:05 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread Philip Thrift
The arithmeticalist thinks matter is fiction. The materialist thinks arithmetic is fiction. That's all I know. :) - pt -- 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

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread agrayson2000
On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 8:57:54 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 29 Sep 2018, at 09:16, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 6:40:05 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 28 Sep 2018, at 18:37, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday,

Re: Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

2018-09-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 29 Sep 2018, at 09:16, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 6:40:05 AM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 28 Sep 2018, at 18:37, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 4:04:41 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 2

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