On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:23:14AM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > Craig, > > I also suspect Bruno's math skills are superior to mine, but his > understanding of the place of math in reality seems pretty deficient, or > perhaps just rigid. > > As I've pointed out his 8 steps may well be mathematically consistent but > that doesn't mean they have anything to do with the fundamental structure > of reality at all. To meaningfully apply a purely mathematical or logical > proof to reality, one must establish an actual correspondence of the > variables in the proof to actual variables of reality. I don't see Bruno > doing that at all.
The strength of Bruno's approach is that that is implicit in the assumption of COMP. Once you assume that one's consciousness can be implemented by a computation, then necessarily ontological reality (whatever that is) can also be implemented by a computation. This is a simple consequence of the Church thesis. > > There is no way that anything happens in his static Platonia. And there is > no method of selecting the structure of our actual universe from what is > apparently his all possible universes. > > He told us his theory doesn't predict the fine tuning, as this type of > theory must, because the fine tuning is not important in hi view. > It is not important for the UDA. But it is, nevertheless, not inconsistent with the Anthropic Principle either. Bruno would say it is necessary for the manifestation of other conciousnesses to us. I reserve my judgement on this... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
