On 1/28/2014 12:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
The problem is that once you suppress "God", you will make Matter into a God, and
science into pseudo-religious scientism, with his train of authoritative arguments. why
do you think the FPI is still ignored by most scientists?
To say "I don't believe in God" is quasi-equivalent with saying "Now we have the answer
to the fundamental question", which is just a crackpot kind of statement.
That's a great deal of attribution of thoughts to me. Have you taken up mind reading,
Bruno? If one forms a theory in which matter is fundamental then matter=god, and
god=matter. What you call it makes no difference to whether it is a good theory of the
world. And since, as you've noted, physics doesn't try to start with an axiom defining
matter, it is just defined implicitly by the equations and ostensively, physics could
reach a theory in which matter=computation...and in fact that's exactly what Tegmark has
done. So you are factually wrong assuming "matter" is some blinding constraint on
physics. The reason FPI is "ignored" by /*most*/ scientists is that /*most*/ scientist
judge there is more progress to be made elsewhere. Everett introduced the idea of FPI,
but he didn't research it, because he saw no way to do so. And your own theory
essentially supports that judgement by showing that part of FP experience is ineffable.
To say "I don't believe in God" is quite clear to all those people who write dictionaries
and has nothing to do with claiming that the fundamental questions are answered. When
Mach said, "I don't believe in atoms." did it imply he knew what was fundamental? For a
logician you make a lot false inferences - or at least attribute them to others.
Brent
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