Re: How Mathematics Meets the World, by Tim Maudlin

On 12/11/2019 9:11 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Materialists say consciousness is process, and as such is realized in matter, but is not itself matter. Materialists who try to solve the problem comes up with many theories, and few are testable? But with mechanism, “realised in matter” simply

Re: How Mathematics Meets the World, by Tim Maudlin

On 12/10/2019 11:53 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: On Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 7:53:35 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: On 12/10/2019 5:37 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: On Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 7:27:59 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: On 12/10/2019 5:13 PM, Philip Thrift wrote:

Re: How Mathematics Meets the World, by Tim Maudlin

On Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 11:11:38 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > The empirical evidences supports Mechanism. I don’t see any evidences for > physicalism. It fails on the mind, or identify 1p and 3p, or make > everything conscious, without any real theory, unlike mechanism, whose

Re: How Mathematics Meets the World, by Tim Maudlin

> On 10 Dec 2019, at 21:39, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 12/10/2019 4:51 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 8 Dec 2019, at 21:57, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List >>> >> > wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 12/8/2019 3:43 AM, Br

Re: Energy conservation in many-worlds

> On 10 Dec 2019, at 21:34, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 12/10/2019 4:44 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> I wrote "my apple" so it is indicial and I define it ostensively, which is >>> concrete. >> >> Relatively to you and me. It seems concrete because we have billion

Re: The largest and smallest Black Holes

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:33 AM Bruno Marchal wrote: > *> I guess solar flare might be more dangerous, with all the > electronically equipment surrounding us* Just before noon on September 1 1859 at Kew Observatory in England astronomers witnessed a HUGE solar flare called the "Carrington Eve

Re: Superdeterminism in comics

> On 10 Dec 2019, at 21:50, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 12/10/2019 5:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> There is. It is what you can expect to feel when doing the experience. In >> Helsinki, you believe that you will survive (because you believe in >> Mechanism,

Re: The largest and smallest Black Holes

> On 10 Dec 2019, at 15:58, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > Astronomical objects and events are nothing to fear. The probabilities are > small. Earth has been here 4.6 billion years and so far no black hole event > or strangelet wipeout. Even large asteroids are a one in ten million year > ev

Re: The problem with physics

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 8:00 AM Bruno Marchal wrote: *>>Yesterday before the duplication when there was only ONE, which ONE of >> the ONE ended up seeing what ONE of them is seeing NOW?* > > > *> We are in the semi-duplication context, * > Semi-duplication? You are assuming there is something no