I'm curios to hear @PeterSjostedtH take on this: Is panpsychism by definition outside of the scope of the scientific method or will science eventually expand to accommodate new theories, backed by experimental evidence for panpsychism?
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Replying to @samim @PeterSjostedtH
I think we can show that all constructive models are computational, so if there is a reality generating operator outside of computation, it won't be constructive and we cannot make a theory about it. But I also think we cannot make any observation that would imply such operators.
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That tweet reads as a transgression of Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
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Replying to @PeterSjostedtH @samim
Gödel discovered a property of specification languages, not of computable implementations. A computational system is always just in a state and goes to another one, according to its transition function. It is never paradoxical or undecided what the state should be.
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Replying to @Plinz @PeterSjostedtH
please explain further: Why/How is computation not "just" a language specification?
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Replying to @samim @PeterSjostedtH
Most specifications cannot be implemented and thus computed (such as a program that solves the halting problem). Everything that exists must be implemented.
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Replying to @Plinz @PeterSjostedtH
"Everything that exists must be implemented" -> fascinating statement! “The trouble is, you think you have time.” – Fake Buddha Quote ;)
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"Everything that exists must be implemented." – do *possibilities* not exist which are not implemented?
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Per definitionem, possibilities don't ontologically exist, but inaccessible parts of the universe might well be implemented.
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To say that possibilities do not ontologically exist betrays the fact that one's ontology is flawed. Of course possibilities exist.
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