Re: Platonism vs Realism WAS: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...

From: 1Z <peterdjones.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:29:25 -0000

Bruno Marchal wrote:
> Le 18-août-06, à 17:02, 1Z a écrit :
>
> > It is for Pythagorenas and Platonists to explain what they mean by
> > "exist".
> >
> > However, if you are going to claim that we are actually *in* Platonia,
> > (mathematical monism) there must be some equivalence between the
> > existence we
> > have and the existence numbers have.
>
>
>
> Of course! But that is what I am currently explaining. If you have
> follow the UDA, then, even if you could not yet be completely convinced
> by each steps, you should at least be able to figure out in which sense
> "you", here and now, in the "shape" of an OM, to borrow the list
> vocabulary, exist as a relative number.


I cna't be persuaded of that without first being
persuaded that numbers exist.

> Third personally you exist in
> aleph-zero relative number form (like snapshots of a running program).
> First personally you exist in the same shape (although you cannot know
> that) but you are "multiplied" by a continuum: the computational
> histories generated by the UD, in the mathematical sense, going through
> those third person states.
>
> Bruno
>
>
>
> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/


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