Dear Bruno,
I, for one, will never think that you are any kind of a crack-pot! I am
truly interested in your work on Godel Lob Logic. The only disagreement
that we seem to have is over whether or not Ideal monism is sufficient to
give necessity of our experience of a physical world.
My criticism is intended to allow you to explain your idea further. If
you have a means to solve the epiphenomena problem I would be very happy
because my own alternative is not even close to the elegance of your idea;
if anyone might look like a crackpot, it will be me. My idea, btw, is a form
of process (not substance!) dualism derived from Vaughan Pratt's work on the
Concurrency problem in computer science.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/pratt95rational.html
Kindest regards,
Stephen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruno Marchal" <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
To: <Fabric-of-Reality.domain.name.hidden>
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 10:47 AM
Subject: Rép : Everything Physical is Based on Consciousness
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> Brian wrote also this to Stephen:
>
>>
>>> We need to be very careful that we are not elevating our internally
>>> generated abstraction of being able to "peek into the world from the
>>> outside" and yet be independent of it into a postulate.
>>
>> I agree. And I think what is missing in Bruno's stuff is some theory
>> of what an observer is. That's what sets the whole thing alight.
>
>
> Of course I have a theory of what is an observer, and a knower, and a
> scientist. They are
> all given by variants on the Godel Lob Logic.
> But either I explain it in some simple ways, and I will look like a
> crackpot (because it *is* counter-intuitive).
> Or I explain the technics. And I will look like a crackpot who hides
> his crackpotness into jargon!
>
> Give me some time to find some intermediate pathway.
>
> Bruno
>
> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
Received on Thu May 05 2005 - 21:01:37 PDT