On 2/18/2013 11:47 AM, Terren Suydam wrote:
If God is arithmetical truth, then what if anything is there to be said about its
"character"? I know from a formal perspective the answer is nothing, because nothing
formal can be said about truth.
This is more of an informal question, and comes out of my innate desire
to anthropomorphize.
Why would you suppose that your desire to anthropomorphize is anything other than wishful
thinking? Do you also have a desire to anthropormorphize the periodic table? the solar
system? the infinitesimal calculus?
If we accept the God of comp,
See, Bruno, this is what your use of "God" language leads to. You protest that you're
just making a scientific theory of what is fundamental - but already people are turning it
back toward a guy with a beard in the clouds.
Brent
and come to see our experience as the view from the inside of a particular infinity of
universal machines, then is there something to be said about what corners of
arithmetical truth we "must" (or "most probably") be in that can help us relate in a
more personal sense to this god?
A crude example question might be, if God did not have a sense of humor, could we exist?
You could substitute other characterizations for other questions.
Given that we could in principle derive physics from the math of the UD - providing a
(partial) answer to the measure problem - could we not also "solve" for the "character"
of God?
Terren
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