On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 12:08:10PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > > That's what I was afraid of. Your theory successfully predicts it > because it predicts "everything", including people drink tequila and > don't get drunk. >
This thread reminds me of a time when I when I was in year 10 in boarding school, and a group of us 15 year olds had spent the evening sinking a slab of beer on the school oval. Probably enough for a school suspension if we were caught, which we weren't. Anyway, I have this distinct memory of one of the students (not me) wandering up and down the dorm, deriving the formula for relativistic temporal dilation from first principles out loud. When asked about this aberrant behaviour, he said he was testing whether he was still any good at physics. Effectively doing the experiment mentioned above. From what I remember, being the only other physics nerd in my dorm, he did it correctly. I didn't even realise he knew any relativity until then! Anyway, back to our sheep (as they say in French). Bruno has been reluctant to really address the question of physical supervenience in his work. It has to be such consciousness must be about something, which we may call the environment, or physics, and further that the mental state must be reflected into that environment to set up a fixed point that anchors the consciousness into a meaningful environment. This will manifest as physica supervenience. Otherwise, the observed environment will collapse into meaningless noise, an effect I dubbed the Occam catastrophe. I know Bruno has sometimes talked about fixed points, and what he calls the "Dxx" trick, but I don't see any real derivation of physical supervenience in his theories. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
