Re: Definition of universe

2010-03-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Mar 2010, at 11:58, David Nyman wrote: On 1 March 2010 08:26, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Everett uses comp, in the usual intuitive way, because he characterizes the observer by its crisp memory, and he derives the phenomenology of the wave packet reduction, by showing it

Re: Definition of universe

2010-03-02 Thread David Nyman
On 2 March 2010 16:13, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I think that you are forgetting the 8th step of the UDA. That is the Movie Graph Argument (MGA). It shows that, assuming comp, the physical supervenience has to be abandonned, and should be substituted by the comp supervenience

Re: R/ASSA query

2010-03-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 01 Mar 2010, at 20:29, Rex Allen wrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 01 Mar 2010, at 05:40, Rex Allen wrote: At most (!) one of those levels is what really exists - the other levels are just ways that we think about what really exists or ways

Re: R/ASSA query

2010-03-02 Thread Brent Meeker
On 3/2/2010 10:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 01 Mar 2010, at 20:29, Rex Allen wrote: I don't have a problem with anti-realism about causal laws, since as you say, my position boils down to consciousness is fundamental and uncaused. What does that explain? I cannot even derive from that if

Re: problem of size '10

2010-03-02 Thread Jack Mallah
I finally figured out what was happening to my emails: the spam filter got overly agressive and it was sending some of the list posts to the spam folder, but letting others into the inbox.  The post I'm replying to now was one that was hidden that way. --- On Sun, 2/14/10, Bruno Marchal

Re: problem of size '10

2010-03-02 Thread David Nyman
2010/3/2 Jack Mallah jackmal...@yahoo.com: I guess by 'physical supervenience' you mean supervenience on physical activity only. That is not what computationalism assumes. Computationalism assumes supervenience on both physical activity and physical laws (aka counterfactuals). There is