Le 05-nov.-05, à 04:52, Stephen Paul King wrote( to George):
> It seems to me that the notion of "storing" and communication 1
> bit explicitly requires some form of stable structure over multiple
> queries. Does this not lead to the requirement of some form of
> physicality, a physicality that is epiphenomena at best in the ideal
> monism (everything is Numb3rs) theory?
George, I agree with Stephen here.
> As to the question of the smallest dimension that can support life
> and consciousness; this has been considered by many people. My own
> ideas consider the smallest dimension that allows for the greatest
> diversity of forms, forms available to instantiate and represent ideal
> Forms. We find that in 3 dimensions there exists at least a countable
> infinity of topologically distinct objects that require non-trivial
> computational resources to sort and categorize.
Hard question. Trivial at the 3-person level description in the sense
that we could argue the UD is 0 dimensional: it computes an undefined
function with 0 arguments.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
Received on Sat Nov 05 2005 - 08:52:09 PST