[extropy-chat] Rudy Rucker's "The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul"

[Dirk Bruere]

On 9/22/05, Marc Geddes <m_j_geddes at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> As per the idea that everything is computation, well yes, in a way I
> agree, but I suspect that's still a long way from the ultimate metaphysics.
> 'Everything is computation' is simply the last in a long line of metaphors
> used to describe reality.
>  Remember, I've been busting my balls for two years trying to develop a
> TOE (theory of everything) - so all that time I've thinking about
> metaphysics and what the ultimate noumenon (raw stuff) of reality might be.
>  For a long time I thought that mathematics might be the ultimate
> metaphysical noumenon (Mathematical Platonism) but I finally reached an even
> more radical conclusion.
>  My latest metaphysical theory (based on two years of deep thought) is
> that the ultimate metaphysical noumenon of reality has a duel aspect: it's a
> sort of hybrid of *Cognition* (which is even more general than
> 'Computation') and *Mathematics*.
>  I call this weird thing *Mathematico-Cognition*
>  Reality is stranger than we can imagine.... ;)
>
I rather like Tegmark's AUH

Dirk
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