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

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. My 2 cents worth: I tend to think that David Nyman has the more sceptically acceptable slant on this. Mathematics and logic are constructi

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

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now, how, you may ask, can these three things actually be > 'incomprehensible' when I've just defined them? ;) I point out again > that incomprehensible things could be referenced indirectly by their > comprehensible effects. And I maintain that's all of any definitio

Maudlin's argument

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 null for dreaming experience which has no inp