Re: Barbour's mistake: An alternative to a timless Platonia

Hi John, Le 30-sept.-06, à 21:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Whatever we 'concentrate on' for comprehensibility, is *our* way of doing. Within our HUMAN comprehension. We cannot concentrate on things we cannot comprehend. I don't understand. We do research because there are things

Re: The difference between a 'chair' concept and a 'mathematical concept' ;)

Le 02-oct.-06, à 18:03, markpeaty a écrit : I hope you will excuse my butting in here, but I was passing through on a different mission and became disturbed by reading some earlier posts of this thread. You are welcome. My 2 cents worth: I tend to think that David Nyman has the more

Re: Maudlin's argument

Le 03-oct.-06, à 06:56, George Levy a écrit : Bruno Marchal wrote in explaining Maudlin's argument: For any given precise running computation associated to some inner experience, you can modify the device in such a way that the amount of physical activity involved is arbitrarily low, and even