On 20 Mar 2013, at 21:08, Stephen P. King wrote:
On 3/20/2013 6:43 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Stephen P. King <stephe...@charter.net
> wrote:
http://www.closertotruth.com/video-profile/What-is-the-Nature-of-Personal-Identity-Peter-van-Inwagen-/176
He starts off with a straightforward, materialist position. Then he
reveals he is a Christian, believes in the resurrection of the body.
How is this to be accomplished? Not by reproducing the dead person,
since then there could be multiple copies, which he finds
unacceptable. So God must do it using some occult method neither
science nor philosophy can fathom.
Dear Stathis,
I agree with your critisms of what Peter van Inwagen is saying.
This
is mostly because I find the concept of an entity, "God', that has the
capacities (attributed by implication) in the discussion to be
inconsistent, for example it is not possible for an entity that does
not
have a continuous extension of itself in a realm to have any causal
efficacy (power to cause a change in the state of affairs) on that
realm. My motivation of posting a link to this video is that I believe
that Prof. van Inwagen's argument is qualitatively identical to
Bruno's
discussion of Platonic Numbers.
Not at all. Come one ...
I hope you will read carefully my reply on FOAR.
If Bruno's argument is coherent (not self-contradictory) then there
must be some finite physical way to implement it, for example: Does
comp
explain how computer programs and physical stuff, such as the laptop
of
desktop computer that you are using to read this post and compose a
reply and sent it out, etc., are related such that actions 'in the
software' and actions of the physical stuff are correlated with each
other? I believe that comp should be capable of explaining this
relation.
That's the object of AUDA.
UDA shows that physics is a infinite sum on computations (which is an
arithmetical notion, not a physical one). UDA already shows the big
shape of the possible physics.
AUDA is the beginning of the derivation.
I have been trying to explain how Pratt's theory should that the
relation between the two (software and hardware) is one of mutual
constraint between dual aspects, but I have not stated such
explicitly.
I wanted to see if the members of this list could see the implication
for themselves without my having to point this out... I see this as a
test of Pratt's idea. So far I have failed.
That is still an Aristotelian picture, with mind and matter being
basically the same thing (or the dual thing). This is comparable to
Craig.
But with comp UDA shows that mind and matter are not dual, nor
isomorphic. Their relation is more like a volume and its border. See
my post to FOAR, and reply there, please, as we have already talk
about this here.
If you want defend Craig theory, then follow Craig in abandoning comp.
Simply.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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