On 1/19/2017 12:55 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Using God in the sense of whatever is needed to have a reality, and maybe just that reality, helps to keep in mind that Primitive-Matter existence needs an act of faith. Nobody can prove its exoistence, and a materialist assumes that such a Primitive Matter is at the origin of all other realities (biologicl, psychological, etc.). It is your theology, apparently.
You're beating on your straw man. Nobody tries to prove the existence of matter - it's an hypothesis used to explain the world. It's defined ostensively. Whatever is the basic ontology of a theory of everything can be nominated "primitive" - adding "matter" or "computation" or just "stuff" doesn't add anything except confusion.
For our topic, you need to explain how that God-Matter succeeds in selecting some computation(s) among all computations.
You don't need to explain that if you don't assume all computations exist. Brent -- 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.
