Bruno, >> My idea was rather that the instantiations would not correspond to >> numbers in the first place > > But that would violate the comp assumption.
No, you still misunderstand me ;-) not correspond in the sense of non-existing, not in the sense of existing but not number. >> - that is why the aliens could destroy the >> machine (it follows from 3-det that something _had_ to happen to >> prevent >> successor states which wouldn't correspond to numbers). > > > But machines are secondary. The "physical machines" are pattern > emerging in the mind of persons themselves emerging from the relation > between numbers. I don't see how aliens could manage a machine not to > have successors. The idea was that the numbers encode moments which don't have successors (the guy who transports), that's why there exist alien-OMs encoded in numbers which destroy all the machines (if we assume that arithmetic is consistent). > If a successor state requires something impossible, *that* successor > state will be impossible, but it does not mean there will not be other > successor states, indeed, for mind corresponding on machine's state, a > continuum of successor states exists. This is the issue at stake: from what do you gather that all machine states have a continuum of successor states (the aleph_0/aleph_1 is not at issue now; it suffices to say: at least one successor state)? After all, there are halting computations. Cheers, Günther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
