Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:23:14AM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Craig, I also suspect Bruno's math skills are superior to mine, but his understanding of the place of math in reality seems pretty deficient, or perhaps just rigid. As I've pointed out his 8 steps may well be mathematically

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-13 Thread Craig Weinberg
I mostly agree Edgar. I would split hairs with you about using the word 'relationships' as a noun for the fundamentals. I see relating as an aspect of sense and sense-making, so that it places the capacity to relate (pansensitivity) as the fundamental. I think you are right about R-bits being

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-13 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, February 13, 2014 6:05:34 PM UTC-5, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:23:14AM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Craig, I also suspect Bruno's math skills are superior to mine, but his understanding of the place of math in reality seems pretty deficient, or

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-13 Thread LizR
On 14 February 2014 07:23, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Craig, I also suspect Bruno's math skills are superior to mine, but his understanding of the place of math in reality seems pretty deficient, or perhaps just rigid. As I've pointed out his 8 steps may well be mathematically

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-13 Thread LizR
On 13 February 2014 08:45, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: It's not the concept of prime numbers that is political, its the assumption that we must agree that they are important to understanding consciousness. usually scientists agree with is political. I would be more sympathetic

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-13 Thread LizR
It seems to me that the situation summarises as follows. Craig disagrees with the axioms of comp, in particular with Yes Doctor and hence parts company with Bruno at step 0. Edgar agrees with Yes Doctor (because in his view consciousness is the product of a computation) and hence, if he is going

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:14:18PM +1300, LizR wrote: It seems to me that the situation summarises as follows. Craig disagrees with the axioms of comp, in particular with Yes Doctor and hence parts company with Bruno at step 0. Edgar agrees with Yes Doctor (because in his view

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-13 Thread LizR
On 14 February 2014 13:33, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:14:18PM +1300, LizR wrote: It seems to me that the situation summarises as follows. Craig disagrees with the axioms of comp, in particular with Yes Doctor and hence parts company with

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Russell, But that assumes that consciousness is prior to ontological reality, to actual being. That's one of the things I find most ridiculous about both Bruno's comp and block universes, that they assume everything is 1p perspectives of conscious human observers. To me, that's just solipsism

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 05:51:18PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Russell, But that assumes that consciousness is prior to ontological reality, to actual being. That's one of the things I find most ridiculous about both Bruno's comp and block universes, that they assume everything is 1p

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-13 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, February 13, 2014 8:51:18 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Russell, But that assumes that consciousness is prior to ontological reality, to actual being. That's one of the things I find most ridiculous about both Bruno's comp and block universes, that they assume everything is

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-13 Thread LizR
On 14 February 2014 14:51, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Russell, But that assumes that consciousness is prior to ontological reality, to actual being. That's one of the things I find most ridiculous about both Bruno's comp and block universes, that they assume everything is 1p

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-13 Thread LizR
On 14 February 2014 15:40, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: And it implies there was no reality before humans. If by human you mean observers in general, then yes - it does imply that. There is no reality without observers. What about the CMBR? When it was created there were

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 04:23:00PM +1300, LizR wrote: On 14 February 2014 15:40, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: And it implies there was no reality before humans. If by human you mean observers in general, then yes - it does imply that. There is no reality without

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Feb 2014, at 17:07, Edgar L. Owen wrote: All, In a computational reality everything consists of information in the computational space of reality/existence, whose presence within it gives it its reality. By taking place within reality these computations produce real universe

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Feb 2014, at 19:58, Craig Weinberg wrote: I think that the opposite of everything that you are saying makes more sense.: On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 11:07:07 AM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: So the take away is that : 1. The universe, and everything in it, consists of information

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:18:21 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 19:58, Craig Weinberg wrote: Our internal experience is informed directly by opportunities for quasi-veridical sensory entanglement from within, without, and beyond our neurology. It is the idea

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2014, at 13:24, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:18:21 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 19:58, Craig Weinberg wrote: Our internal experience is informed directly by opportunities for quasi-veridical sensory entanglement from within,

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, and Craig, Computational reality doesn't need any notion of primes, or 17 is a prime. In fact I don't see any reason why reality needs any concept even of 17 to compute its current state. If this is true then individual numbers such as 17 are not necessary for reality to compute the

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
Edgar, On 12 Feb 2014, at 17:57, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, and Craig, Computational reality doesn't need any notion of primes, or 17 is a prime. Which confirms that you are using computational in a mysterious idiosyncratic personal sense, and I recall you that you have never

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:36:29 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Feb 2014, at 13:24, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:18:21 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 19:58, Craig Weinberg wrote: Our internal experience is informed

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:57:11 AM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, and Craig, Computational reality doesn't need any notion of primes, or 17 is a prime. In fact I don't see any reason why reality needs any concept even of 17 to compute its current state. If this is true then

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-11 Thread ghibbsa
On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 4:07:07 PM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: All, In a computational reality everything consists of information in the computational space of reality/existence, whose presence within it gives it its reality. By taking place within reality these computations produce

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-11 Thread Craig Weinberg
I think that the opposite of everything that you are saying makes more sense.: On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 11:07:07 AM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: So the take away is that : 1. The universe, and everything in it, consists of information only. And that information consists only of

<    1   2