On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 04:57:04PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > Thus the notion of an external reality IS consistent with it being a > computational reality, because it leads directly to it. > > Edgar >
So you have just painted yourself into a Platonic idealist corner. The only ontological properties of relevance is that of universal computation. We could just as easily be running on the stuff of Peano arithmetic (as Bruno suggests) as on Babbage's analytic engine in some fantastic Steampunk scenario. Furthermore, since universal dovetailers will dominate the measure of conscious programs, we will observe an FPI-like screen over the activities of those programs - we must be staring at the "Nothing" I talk about in my book. This is just a consequence of the UDA. But the "Nothing" is not an ontology - it is a really a statement that ontology is unknowable, and not even really meaningful in any sense. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
