Re: Mathematical Universe

2007-10-08 Thread Max
(This is a belated response to Jürgen Schmidhuber's post at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/browse_thread/thread/ceae8b5488e1ae7d/bf9ee6a75c36b97c?lnk=gst&q=Schmidhuber&rnum=13# ) Hi Jürgen, Very belated thanks for taking the time to send all these detailed and constructive comme

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2007-10-08 Thread George Levy
Sorry Bruno, no disrespect, I meant to type "Hi Bruno". George George Levy wrote: > Ho Bruno > > Sorry, I have been unclear with myself and with you. I have been > lumping together the assumption of an "objective physical world" and > an "objective platonic world". So you are right, I do reject

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2007-10-08 Thread George Levy
Ho Bruno Sorry, I have been unclear with myself and with you. I have been lumping together the assumption of an "objective physical world" and an "objective platonic world". So you are right, I do reject the objective physical world, but why stop there? Is there a need for an objective platoni

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2007-10-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi George, I think that we agree on the main line. Note that I never have pretended that the conjunction of comp and weak materialism (the doctrine which asserts the existence of primary matter) gives a contradiction. What the filmed-graph and/or Maudlin shows is that comp makes materialism e