On 9/28/2018 2:10 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
It's not something outside mathematics that is true
OK.
in the sense that ice is cold.
That is also a belief by some machine, and it might be recovered in
their phenomenology, in arithmetic.
We cannot discuss in the abstract. Doing metaphysics with the
scientific method as for theory and means of verifying empirically the
theory.
The mechanist theory predicts both matter and consciousness.
The question is whether it predicts that ice is cold. It not at all
impressive to say it predicts that a some machine will believe something
like "ice is cold" when it also predicts some machine will also believe
"ice is hot" and another that "ice is friendly" and that "ice is
quadratic" and so on.
Brent
Materialist theory assume matter, with some magical attribute, and
miss consciousness. So …
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