On 04 Jun 2013, at 01:20, Roger Clough wrote:
Materialism is a joke
Materialism is a view of the universe that claims that the only
existence in the universe is physical or objective existence--that
only
objects moving in spacetime exist. Which is disproven by the
fact that if you
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:
On 04 Jun 2013, at 01:20, Roger Clough wrote:
Materialism is a joke
Materialism is a view of the universe that claims that the only
existence in the universe is physical or objective existence--that only
objects moving
That the universe is ultimately mathematical
My proposal is that the universe can ultimately only be described
pragmatically-- that is, in mathematical terms, by its experimental behavior.
That matter itself is only a logical implication derived experimentally
by cause and effect. Which means
This is a theorem, once we suppose the mind is Turing emulable.
not actually a theorem if we don't, tho' ?
More to the point, it might well be that materialism IS a joke. But Roger's
attempt to show this is no closer to the mark than Dr. Johnson kicking his
stone was to disproving idealism.
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