On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 4:09 AM John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 12:14 AM Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> > wrote: > > *> * >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *This is all different from John Clark's argument that something >> mustexist to breathe fire into all the computations. He calls thatsomething >> "matter", and strongly disavows the ability of arithmetic todo this. Bruno >> Marchal claims the opposite - that arithmetic, or infact any abstract >> system capable of universal computation, issufficient for the job. To be >> quite frank, I'm a fence sitter in thisdebate, as I've yet to see any >> physically realisable experiment thatcan settle the matter.* > > > I have. Add 2 +2 on your computer. Observe the output. Hit your computer > as hard as you can with the hammer. Add 2 +2 on your computer again. > Observe if the output has changed. Note that a hammer can change physical > things but can't change arithmetic. > > >From this logic we can conclude that past points in time belong in arithmetic (since we can't change it, and it doesn't change). Jason -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUhKnGqiDBkOgwpp25vNqbLcxkaCgAAKDBFKa16Xk4GQZA%40mail.gmail.com.
