peterdjones.domain.name.hidden wrote:
>
> Georges Quénot wrote:
>> peterdjones.domain.name.hidden wrote:
>>> Georges Quénot wrote:
>>>> peterdjones.domain.name.hidden wrote:
>>>>> Since I don't adopt the premise that everything is
>>>>> mathematical,
>>>> I would like to clarify just that point. I understood that
>>>> you do not adopt it (and whatever your reasons I have to
>>>> respect the fact). By the way I am not sure I really :-)
>>>> adopt it either.
>>>>
>>>> But can you make a difference between adopting it and
>>>> being able to consider that it might make sense (whether
>>>> it is true or not) and conduct (or follow) reflections
>>>> in a context in which it would be conjectured as true?
>>> I don't think Mathematical Monism makes sense
>> OK. Just consider that it does make sense to some people.
>>
>>> (to be precise it
>>> is either incoherent, in asserting that only some mathematical
>>> objects exist, or inconsistent with observation in asserting that
>>> they all do)..
>> I do not see how it can be inconsistent with observation.
>
> If every mathematical structure exists , then mathematical
> structures consisting of a counterpart of me plus a "Harry
> Potter" universe exist. Yet this is not observed. Of course
> that might be coincidence.
I see at least three possibilities:
1. It is not so sure that there actually exist sets of
equations of which a "Harry Potter universe" includes
a counterpart of you.
2. There may well exist a "Harry Potter universe" that
includes a counterpart of you but it is not causaly
related to our universe (too far for instance) and
this is why we cannot observe it.
3. You actually are in a "Harry Potter universe" but it
just happened that you are not a sorcerer and you must
know that in "Harry Potter universes", non sorcerers
are prevented fromm observing magical events.
Georges.
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