Le 04-avr.-06, à 04:35, Stephen Paul King a écrit :
> How do numbers *distinguish* (if I am permitted to use that word)
> between *possibility* and *actuality*? Is the "bush" what Bruno is
> "beating around"?
I guess so. For a machine, an *actuality* is just a possibility seen
from some "inside" point of view. It is the basic idea refered by the
term "indexical" in the philosophical literature.
An expression like "Here and now I am myself" is tautologically true
for such a machine, despite the fact that "here", "now" and "myself"
will change their meanings with respect to each observer moments.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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Received on Tue Apr 04 2006 - 06:33:30 PDT