> On 21 Oct 2018, at 18:12, Tomas Pales <litewav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 5:52:13 PM UTC+2, Philip Thrift wrote: > > If our universe does not have infinitely-computing objects but there are > other universes that do, that would seem strange. > > Why would our universe be left out? :) > > > The mathematical multiverse would contain all possible (consistently defined) > mathematical structures, both finite and infinite. We would live in a finite > one. Why? I don't know. Maybe just by accident. Or maybe only finite > structures can contain conscious entities.
By the first person indeterminacy; the finite structures are multiplied on infinitely many computations, which explains why there is a measure problem, already in arithmetic, when we do the mechanist assumption (in cognitive science, not in physics). Bruno > > -- > 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 > <mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com > <mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list > <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- 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.
