<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/22/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marc Geddes</b> <<a href="mailto:m_j_geddes@yahoo.com.au">m_j_geddes@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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*. </div>
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<div>I call this weird thing *Mathematico-Cognition* </div>
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<div>Reality is stranger than we can imagine.... ;)</div><div><span class="e" id="q_1067ca497348f14a_1">
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<div> </div></span></div></blockquote></div>I rather like Tegmark's AUH<br>
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Dirk<br>