Re: Number and function for non-mathematician

2006-07-06 Thread Russell Standish
The position you state is functionalism. COMP also assumes that the physical state you speak of is emulable by a Turing machine. On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:36:00AM -0700, George Levy wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Norman, Le 20-juin-06, à 04:04, Norman Samish a écrit : I've

Re: Number and function for non-mathematician

2006-07-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hello Norman, Le 05-juil.-06, à 19:17, Norman Samish a écrit : Dear Bruno, You have, more than once, referred to something I (jokingly) said a month ago:    I've endured this thread long enough!  Let's get back to something I can understand!     I said this because I am hungry for more

Re: Number and function for non-mathematician

2006-07-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 05-juil.-06, à 20:36, George Levy a écrit : My background is more engineering and physics than mathematics and I do share some of Norman misgivings. Some of it has to do with terminology. For example the term COMP hypothesis does not carry any information. One of my old name for it was

Re: Number and function for non-mathematician

2006-07-05 Thread Norman Samish
DearBruno,You have, more than once, referred to somethingI (jokingly) said a month ago: "I've endured this thread long enough! Let's get back to something I can understand!" I said this because I am hungry for more informed speculation on "Why does anything exist?" and related questions.

Re: Number and function for non-mathematician

2006-07-05 Thread George Levy
Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi Norman, Le 20-juin-06, 04:04, Norman Samish a crit : I've endured this thread long enough! Let's get back to something I can understand! My background is more engineering and physics than mathematics and I do share some of Norman misgivings.