Re: Emulation and Stuff

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:21:12 +0200

On 18 Aug 2009, at 12:14, Flammarion wrote:

>>
>> Each branch of math has its own notion of existence, and with comp,
>> we
>> have a lot choice, for the ontic part, but usually I take
>> arithmetical existence, if only because this is taught in school, and
>> its enough to justified the existence of the universal numbers, and
>> either they dreams (if "yes doctor") or at least their discourse on
>> their dreams (if you say no the doctor and decide to qualify those
>> machines are "inexistent zombies").
>
> Platonism is not taught in schools. You are conflatin
> existence with truth


Platonism is not taught in schools, I agree. But I have never said that.
I am not conflating existence with truth, I am conflating mathematical
existence with truth of existential arithmetical statements.


> mathematical stucture+matter gives you more to
> tackle the consciousness problem with than mathematical structure
> alone

The mind-body problem comes from the fact that we have not yet find
how to attach consciousness to matter. At least with comp, after UDA,
we know why.


> No. it is equivalent to the conjunction of that stament with
> "and the mathematicians Ex is a claim of ontological existence".

You are the one making that addition. So, again, show where in the
reasoning I would use that addition.


>
>> If you really believe that the number 07 has no existence at all, then
>> the UDA reasoning does not go through,
>
> at last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Read or reread the SANE paper, I explicitly assume Arithmetical
Realism. This is hardly new. I really don't follow you.
UDA is an argument showing that comp (yes doctor + CT) => non
physicalism. (CT = Church thesis)
A weaker version of CT is provably equivalent with Ex(x = universal
number). It makes no sense without AR.

Bruno

http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/




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