> On 10 Mar 2021, at 13:05, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 6:45 PM spudboy100 via Everything List > <everything-list@googlegroups.com <mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com>> > wrote: > > > I kind of side with Canadian philosopher John Leslie, as well as British > > astronomer, James Jeans on this question. Both Leslie and Jeans see the > > cosmos as a Great Thought. I formalize their conjectures as a Great > > Program. One may ask, running on what? > > > There's only one thing it could be running on, the laws of physics.
This cannot work. Years ago, I would have said “this cannot work unless you defend an ultra-finitist (and fictionalist) theory of machine, but eventually I have shown that even such a weird conception of machine cannot help to escape the necessity to reduce physics to a finitist (but non ultrafinitist) theory of mind. When we assume Mechanism, we can no more invoke an ontological commitment richer than “very elementary arithmetic”. The Aristotelian God (Matter, with a big M to say that it is not reducible to simpler) cannot exist, in fact cannot make any sense. Bruno > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1RmwztO04e3ZhnkRtAN%3DVJLC2TZ1xDo41H8Rpmhhdrtg%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1RmwztO04e3ZhnkRtAN%3DVJLC2TZ1xDo41H8Rpmhhdrtg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/34D44DD4-9B4F-43D9-8ADF-76326F2DB884%40ulb.ac.be.
