Hi Kory, nicely put (the below), it captures my current metaphysical position quite accurately :-)
Cheers, Günther > Imagine again the mathematical description of Conway's Life applied to > the binary digits of PI. Somewhere within that description there may > be descriptions of beings who have built their own computers (which > would ultimately be made out of "gliders" and so on). In that mundane > sense, those beings "perform computations" and "implement programs" > within that world. Even if those beings accepted what I'm calling > Mathematical Physicalism, they could still talk about un-implemented > programs, but they'd just mean "unimplemented by us in this particular > world". > > The same goes for "existence" and "non-existence". As a Mathematical > Physicalist, I believe that "everything exists" (at least, everything > that's mathematically describable). But it's still convenient to say > things like "Unicorns don't exist", by which I just mean that they > (probably) don't exist in my particular world. (And by "my particular > world", I really mean the cloud of worlds represented by all my > possible future states and all my possible past states. And so on.) > > -- Kory > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
