Hi Russell Standish If one is a Platonist one cannot avoid using Berkeley's rescue package.
----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Russell Standish Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-31, 17:54:16 Subject: Mathematical Multiverse On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 09:01:50AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Russell Standish > > I have no problem with the idea that the universe is sort of ultimately > mathematical, except that equations by themselves can't > do anything except just be there. So nothing can happen. > All you have is an a priori. This is Hawking's question "What breathes the fire into the equations?", is it not? My particular answer to that is crafted as section 9.3 of my book. It is fairly late in the book, so I'm not sure how comprehensible it is without reading much of the rest of the book. But you're welcome to answer specific questions. I suspect, given your druthers, you would take Bishop Berkeley's rescue package :). > > The other problem I have is that such a universe as you propose > (just mathematics) has to be a multltiverse. It's totally unnecessary > if you have your ontology grounded in intelligence or consciousness. > I don't understand this comment at all. Please explain? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
