On 9/5/2012 2:20 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Yeah, I don't know, any kind of universe-as-machine cosmology seems no
better than a theological cosmology. What machine does the machine run
on? What meta-arithmetic truths make arithmetic truths true?
Maybe it is the act of us being aware of them that collectively makes
them true. Jaakko Hintikka has some ideas on that:
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=K7yJLmZCbFUC&oi=fnd&pg=PA415&ots=IXTvX1iloM&sig=OD5xNX3OZBcCWgiVjkVGPCX_11I#v=onepage&q&f=false
We just need to widely expand what the "we" is! Poor humans think
that they are "it". What Hubris!
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Onward!
Stephen
http://webpages.charter.net/stephenk1/Outlaw/Outlaw.html
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