A modest question. What's left of materialism (to even argue about) when orthodox theoretical physics itself sees the world in terms of virtual particles and one-dimensional strings? m.a.
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From: "Bruno Marchal" <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
To: <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:27 AM
Subject: Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology
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> On 14 Sep 2009, at 19:46, Flammarion wrote:
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>> On 13 Sep, 09:02, Bruno Marchal <marc....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>>> On 12 Sep 2009, at 16:42, Flammarion wrote:
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>>>> On 11 Sep, 19:34, Bruno Marchal <marc....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>>>>> On 11 Sep 2009, at 17:45, Flammarion wrote:
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>>>>> Once you say "yes" to the doctor, there is a clear sense in which
>>>>> "you" (that is your third person relative computational state, the
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>>>>> the doctor digitalizes) exist in arithmetic, or exist
>>>>> arithmetically,
>>>>> and this in infinite exemplars, relatively to an infinity of
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>>>>> numbers which executes the computation going through that state,
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>>>>> this in the arithmetical sense, which implied a subtle mathematical
>>>>> redundancy.
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>>>> Not at all.
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>>> It follows from saying "yes" to a material re-incarnation. I have no
>>> clue why you say so.
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>> No consequences about an immaterial re-incarnation
>> follow from saying yes to a mteriali re-incarnation
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> The epistemological consequence that physicalism is false follows from
CLIP...
> MGA.
> Bruno
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