And how much is that "2 kg" in that 'other' universe? JM On 11/23/08, Bruno Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 20 Nov 2008, at 19:08, m.a. wrote: > >> >> >> Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> >>> Let us go back to the point. The point of MGA is to show that MEC + >>> MAT implies a contradiction. You can see that it is equivalent with >>> - the proposition saying that MEC implies NON MAT (mechanism >>> refutes materialism). >>> - the proposition saying that MAT implies NON MECH (materialism >>> refutes mechanism) >>> >>> Now, MECH implies " NON MAT" can be made constructive. This means >>> MECH provides the complete constraints of how a physical laws looks >>> like and come from, meaning physics is a branch of computationalist >>> theory of mind (itself a branch of number theory, in a slightest >>> more general sense of "number"). >>> >>> Now, imagine that luckily we arrive at a proof that the >>> "arithmetical" electron weights two kg. Then we will know that >>> mechanism is false. >> >> But only in our universe, right. In some other universe couldn't >> electrons actually weigh 2kg? > > > Not really. If we prove that electrons (assuming we can defined them > in the physics extracted from comp) weigh 2 kg, then they have 2 kg in > all possible universes. If there is an 1,9 kg electron in some > universe, that could be used as a counter-example showing that the > proof was not valid, or that comp is false. > > Bruno > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > > > >
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