Lennart: J.Cohen and I.Stewart in their chef d'oeuvre "Collapse of Chaos" play around with aliens who they call Zarathustrans, and who display a different 'alien' logic. It is quite refreshing. You say: Sound? brings up the tune of the Latin maxim: mens sana in corpore sano assigning the 'mental' to the body we deal with. I reformulated this latter as: the mind is limited by the 'material' tools we use. Other tools? - maybe other logic, other math.
A uiniverse IMO is structured by the ingredients it started with in the unlimited variability of infinite BigBangs (my narrative) consequently the relations of those different ingredients (universe-system, call it universe consciousness etc.) may evolve different self reflective complex conglomerates (like here: it is us humans) with accordingly shaped mentality (logic, math, etc.) We are a quite sinple system (depicted in 3+1 D), so our logic is also pretty simple (one-way pragmatic). Other universes may be more sophisticated and I have pity for those poor fellow (simpleminded) humans who may 'teleport' or 'duplicate' into such - much more sophisticated worlds and may become there their stupid bums<G> with their memory-experience-logic luggage. John M --- Lennart Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William S. Cooper says: "The absolutist outlook has > it that if a logic is > valid at all it is valid period. A sound logic is > completely sound > everywhere and for everyone, no exceptions! For > absolutist logicians a > logical truth is regarded as 'true in all possible > worlds', making logical > laws constant, timeless and universal." > > Where do the laws of logic come from? he asks the > absolutist. > > Bruno? > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---