The only working philosophical edifice left?
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Replying to @Evollaqi
Even dualism and the different versions of idealism seem to require a computational foundation. Every supernatural entity must ultimately have natural causes (even if those are in a parent universe).
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Replying to @Plinz
Could you elaborate? What is your account of causation here? Why would a non-contingent entity (say, the number 2) require a cause? Why does your account of causation entail that dualism and idealism require a computational foundation? Thank you for letting me pick your brain!
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Replying to @Evollaqi
Causality is a feature of a model that separates a domain into independent, interfacing systems, whereby the evolution of one system is conditional of interfaced states of the other. If you treat the universe as a single, evolving state, then there is no causation within it.
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In my usual view, all of mathematics is a priori and does not evolve, so the number 2 cannot be caused. But if you treat Peano's axioms as a computational generator operating on a Platonic substrate, then 2 is caused by a metamathematical machine executing Peano's axioms.
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The question of the cause of 2 is the same as the question of the cause of the shape of the Mandelbrot fractal. The natural numbers are literally a fractal, with Peano's axioms being one possible rule set, and we discover (not create) them and their properties by computation.
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If a universe presents itself via discernible differences (information) and is regular enough for computation, then its substrate (if it has one) must necessarily and sufficiently be a computer, i.e. a system capable of regular state change with Turing universality.
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If we are dreams in God's mind, something must allow God's mind to progress in a non-random fashion and store its state. In other words, there must be some computer that runs the dreamer.
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Dualism entails two computational domains. For instance, dualism might allow you to act on this immediate moment in time by intermittently stopping the physical universe, letting the universe that computes your mind process your decision making, then update and commence physics.
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Replying to @Plinz
Hmm it *might* entail computational interaction between the two domains, but why does it entail the mental domain is itself computational?
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Because minds hold state, and the state changes in a regular fashion, so all observations we can make about them can be and must be generated by system capable of regular state change. Whatever else characterizes the mental domain, that makes it computational.
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Replying to @Plinz
Ok yeah, I guess my main issue here is with premise (1) of what I - perhaps mistakenly - take to be your argument (see reply to this tweet). Though admittedly this is more on the basis of intuition/modus tollens rather than any specific flaw I can spot in your argumentation.
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