Should we naturalize mind, or should we arithmetize matter?
Should we naturalize mind, or should we arithmetize matter?
Author(s): Bruno MarchalSubject(s): Religion and science , Philosophy of Science
Published by: EDIS- Publishing Institution of the University of Zilina
Keywords: Turing universal machine; universal dovetailer argument; Church-Turing thesis; filmed graph argument; provability logic; quantum logic; intensional logics; self-reference;
Summary/Abstract: We provide an argument showing that once we assume the mechanist hypothesis in the cognitive science then we have to explain physics from intensional number theory and/or mathematical computer science alone. The proof is constructive. It shows how to derive the physical laws from elementary arithmetic. It makes the computationalist thesis empirically refutable, by comparing the physics extracted from numbers and the inferred physics from observation. The proof shows that if mechanism is true, we cannot naturalize the mind, and we have to arithmetize matter, or beliefs in matter, instead.
Journal: Dialogo
- Issue Year: 4/2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 289-299
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
