Le 11-juin-07, à 13:24, David Nyman wrote in part: (I agree with the
non quoted part) ....
> Are we any closer to agreement, mutatis terminoligical mutandis? My
> scheme does not take 'matter' to be fundamental, but rather an
> emergent (with 'mind') from something prior that possesses the
> characteristics of self-assertion, self-sensing, and self-action. I
> posit these because they are what is (Occamishly) required to save the
> appearances.
... And here too.
> If we take AR to be that which is self-asserting,
We don't have too, even without comp, in the sense that, with AR
(Arithmetical Realism) we cannot not take into account the relative
reflexivity power of the number's themselves.
> with
> its intrinsic (arithmetical) set of symmetry-breaking axioms,
OK (but again the "symmetry-breaking" is a consequence (too be sure
there remains technical problems ...)
> then
> COMP perhaps can stand for the process that drives this potential
> towards emergent layers of self-action and self-sensing.
Yes. Perhaps, indeed.
> It then
> becomes an empirical programme whether AR+COMP possesses the synthetic
> power to save all the necessary phenomena.
Exactly.
> As you would wish it, I
> imagine.
Actually if COMP does not give the right physics, that would be
interesting too. In such a case we could use comp and experimental
physics to measure somehow the degree of non-computability, well not of
the physical world which is necessary not completely computable with
the comp hyp, but of our mind. But of course if comp leads directly to
the right physics, that would be nice, sure.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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Received on Tue Jun 12 2007 - 09:01:34 PDT