On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:28:17PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 12 Dec 2016, at 19:31, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > > > >On 12/12/2016 3:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> > >>>it's just like seeing the storm as anger of the sky-god. > >>>People experience anger, so they think they have understood > >>>the storm. They don't understand fluid dynamics (at least > >>>until very recently). > >> > >>I recall that such a type of belief does not work. The whole > >>physics prediction power is based on an identity link which does > >>not work. > > > >It works pretty damn well in predicting storms. > > Only by assuming non-computationalism, but then it is contradicted > with evolution theory, biology. It works in practice, but is flawed > at the fundamental level. I am not saying that this or that physics > theory is not working in practice, I am saying that physicalism is
I don't see why you would say physicalism needs to be assumed to explain the predictive power of physics. Particularly when the whole induction process is explained quite neatly with the Solomonoff-Levin universal prior and Bayes theorem over a multiversal set of events that naturally arises in the context of computationalism. > wrong with mechanism/rationalism. To make physics coherent with > physicalism, you need to introduce actual infinities in both mind > and matter, and a univocal link between, which, at the level of > metaphysics or theology becomes as much invalid than an evocation to > God, which makes no sense in any theory, even theology. > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
