RE: White Rabbit vs. Tegmark

From: Jonathan Colvin <jcolvin.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 13:44:42 -0700

> Stephen: Should we not expect Platonia to be Complete?

I'd like to think that it should not be (by Godel?); or that it is not
completely self-computable in finite meta-time. Or some such. But that's
more of a faith than a theory.

Jonathan Colvin


> >>Brent: I doubt that the concept of "logically possible" has any
> >> absolute meaning. It is relative to which axioms and
> >> predicates are assumed.
> >
> > That's rather the million-dollar question, isn't it? But isn't the
> > multiverse limited in what axioms or predicates can be assumed? For
> > instance, can't we assume that in no universe in Platonia
> can (P AND ~P)
> > be
> > an axiom or predicate?
> >
> >>Not long ago the quantum weirdness
> >> of Bell's theorem, or special relativity would have been
> >> declared "logically impossible".
> >
> > That declaration would simply have been mistaken.
> >
> > Is it logically possible
> >> that Hamlet doesn't kill Polonius?
> >
> > Certainly. I'm sure there are people named "Hamlet" who
> have not killed a
> > person named "Polonius".
> >
> >> Is it logically possible
> >> that a surface be both red and green?
> >
> > If you are asking whether it is logically possibly that a
> surface that can
> > reflect *only* light at a wavelength of 680 nm can reflect
> a wavelength of
> > 510 nm, the answer would seem to be "no".
> >
> > Jonathan Colvin
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Sat May 28 2005 - 16:51:00 PDT