Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-25 Thread Philip Thrift
On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 6:04:28 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 2/25/2019 8:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Fictionalism does not apply to the arithmetical reality, nor to > > physics, but to the naïve idea of a “physical universe” as being the > > fundamental reality. The theology o

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-25 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/25/2019 8:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Fictionalism does not apply to the arithmetical reality, nor to physics, but to the naïve idea of a “physical universe” as being the fundamental reality. The theology of the universal machine is a priori quite non Aristotelian: there is no Creator,

Are there real numbers that cannot be defined?

2019-02-25 Thread Philip Thrift
via https://twitter.com/JDHamkins/status/1100090709527408640 Joel David Hamkins @JDHamkins *Must there be numbers we cannot describe or define? Definability in mathematics and the Math Tea argument* Pure Mathematics Research Seminar at the University of East Anglia in Norwich on Monday, 25 Fe

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 25 Feb 2019, at 11:52, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 3:34:15 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 22 Feb 2019, at 18:44, Philip Thrift > >> wrote: >> >> Some accept the possibility that there can be something that is immaterial. > > Yes. We call them “

Re: Recommend this article, Even just for the Wheeler quote near the end

2019-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 25 Feb 2019, at 12:39, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 2:44:14 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 24 Feb 2019, at 15:24, Lawrence Crowell > > wrote: >> >> On Friday, February 22, 2019 at 3:18:01 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >> >> >> On 2/22/2019 11:39 AM, La

Re: Recommend this article, Even just for the Wheeler quote near the end

2019-02-25 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 2:44:14 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 24 Feb 2019, at 15:24, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > On Friday, February 22, 2019 at 3:18:01 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 2/22/2019 11:39 AM, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >> >> This sounds almost tautological. I ha

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-25 Thread Philip Thrift
On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 3:34:15 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 22 Feb 2019, at 18:44, Philip Thrift > > wrote: > > > Some accept the possibility that there can be something that is immaterial. > > > Yes. We call them “mathematician”. > > Bruno > > > This recent thesis I came acr

Re: Modal logic, consciousness, and matter

2019-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 22 Feb 2019, at 18:44, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Friday, February 22, 2019 at 3:57:49 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 21 Feb 2019, at 20:26, Philip Thrift > >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 8:23:15 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 18 Feb 2

Re: Recommend this article, Even just for the Wheeler quote near the end

2019-02-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 24 Feb 2019, at 15:24, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > On Friday, February 22, 2019 at 3:18:01 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > On 2/22/2019 11:39 AM, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >> This sounds almost tautological. I have not read Masanes' paper, but he >> seems to be saying the Born rule is a ma