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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In the present Interlude after the session chaired by Lou on Symmetry
and before the coming one, allow me to enlarge on something Bruno raised.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bruno wrote:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt;line-height:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Then this confirms the "computationalist
theory of everything", which is given by any formalism, like Robinson
Arithmetic (the rest is given by the internal machine's phenomenology, like the
one deducible from incompleteness). Indeed, in that theory, the stable (predictible)
observable have to be given by a statistics on all computation going through
our actual state. This (retro-)predicts that the physical obeys to some quantum
logic, and it can be derived from some intensional nuance on the Gödel
self-referential provability predicate (like beweisbar('p') &
consistent('t')).</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt;line-height:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In quantum mechanics without collapse of the
wave during observation, the axiom 3 is phenomenological, and with
computationalism in the cognitive science (the assumption that there is a level
of description of the brain such that my consciousness would
proceed through any such emulation of my brain or body at that level or
below) the whole "physical" is phenomenological. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt;line-height:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Physics becomes a statistics on our
consistent sharable first person (plural) experiences. With "our"
referring to us = the universal numbers knowing that they are universal (Peano
Arithmetic, Zermelo Fraenkel Set Theory, viewed as machine, are such numbers).</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt;line-height:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">An actuality is a possibility seen from
inside, somehow, in this context or theory (QM without collapse, or
Computationalism). </span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt;line-height:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Personally, it seems that quantum mechanics,
when we agree on the internal phenomenological of actuality in the
possibilities, confirms the most startling, perhaps shocking, consequence of
computationalism (digital mechanism). Note that it does not make the physical
itself computable a priori.</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Of these thoughts, let us focus on the following: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“…. when
we agree on the internal phenomenological of actuality in the possibilities,
confirms the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">most startling, perhaps
shocking</b>, consequence of computationalism (digital mechanism). …”</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Now how does “shocking” enter a discourse on quantum concepts and the
idea that there is knowledge and wisdom in them there natural numbers?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Obviously, and let us thank Bruno for having pointed it out, there is an
element of reticence, unwillingness, resistance and protracted, unpleasant
surprise in the thought that Life, and the world in general may be much more
mechanistic and trivial than thought before.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The person pre-shock believes in something, the person post-shock knows
that he has been robbed a dream. It is like a child has to realise that Santa
Claus is not a real person, and that little babies do come about the way they
come about.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Many ideas have to be laid to rest during the process of familiarising
oneself to the idea that the glue that holds the world together – and within
it, our ideas about the world – is best described by the well-known form of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">a+b=c</i> as known from good old elementary
school.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Discussing what forms and appearances the order can produce which rules
Nature, and within Nature, us and our thoughts, is unfortunately equivalent to
discussing, what kinds of order we can look into and discover within <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">a+b=c</i>,<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>as this old, well-chewed bone is the backbone of rational concepts.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The disillusionment will be individually instrumented for each of us, as
Tolstoy had said about the unhappiness of families, each in their own way. The
resulting – remaining – denotation, after having lost its connotations, will be
made up of the simple grey, standard, industrial units of abstraction, order as
a running fight among, and a compromise between <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">b-a, a-2b, a+b, 2b-3a, </i>and the like. </span><span style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please accept my apologies for the shock the insight may cause that we
are indeed just an experiment in combinatorics, and probably the elves,
fairies, trolls and unicorns do not exist neither. </span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"></span></p>
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