On 6/27/2020 1:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Practically, we predict only number relation. Prediction is necessary, as I
said, but a simplet theory with a greater range of explanation is always better
in the fundamental science,
Then you should be happy with, "God did it." which explains everything and
anything...perfect for everythingism.
"God did it" explains nothing, unless you explain how God did it. That is what
is done with mechanism, where the elementary arithmetic truth justifies completely the
existence of the digital machines and their activities,
No it doesn't. The "existence" of arithmetic and the implicit
assumption that true=exists are just assertions. Not that assertions
are impermissible, but they must be justified by agreement of their
consequences with observation. In this case the consequences are either
just more metaphysics or they are unobservable.
and how the physical phenomenology reappears through some of the modes of
self-reference.
But it doesn't do that. You just say that it could do that. But that
is because it could do anything.
This explains the how and why of the physical laws, and this without the need
to eliminate consciousness, first person, etc.
“God did it” is how the materialists, who take the physical reality are a
granted primary reality, explains, or how they attempt to dismiss the
“metaphysical” open problem.
You return to complaints that somebody (Democritius?) takes physical
reality to be "primary". But "being primary" is just relative to some
theory. The theory assumes what is primary, so it can't prove it, on
pain of circularity. Whatever credence it deserves must come from
application of the theory: what it predicts.
Brent
If you agree that metaphysics is not physics, as you did recently, there should
be no problem with this.
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