SpaceweaverFri, Jan 25, 2008 Proposition 4 about Worlds and Minds is problematic. Indexical is a linguistic perhaps a poetic concept. But in the light of realism, this indexical carries profound differences:
1. The 'actual' world as the world as we live in, is the only world we know to be supporting our autopoiesis as living systems. We know as the mere fact of being alive. For all other possible worlds we can only assume that knowledge. That's a big difference not a mere linguistic one.
2 The more abstract and interesting difference, is the difference in computation. Only one world/mind is being computed to the extent of being actual. All other possible worlds are only computed sketches within the computation of the actual. We often hide from ourselves this difference in resolution of details.
I would suggest that all possible worlds are but aspects of the actual, so there are no possible worlds apart from the actual. The actual is the one and only world there is. If we take it to minds... well There is only one Mind.
Proposition 4 about Worlds and Minds is problematic. Indexical is a linguistic perhaps a poetic concept. But in the light of realism, this indexical carries profound differences:
1. The 'actual' world as the world as we live in, is the only world we know to be supporting our autopoiesis as living systems. We know as the mere fact of being alive. For all other possible worlds we can only assume that knowledge. That's a big difference not a mere linguistic one.
2 The more abstract and interesting difference, is the difference in computation. Only one world/mind is being computed to the extent of being actual. All other possible worlds are only computed sketches within the computation of the actual. We often hide from ourselves this difference in resolution of details.
I would suggest that all possible worlds are but aspects of the actual, so there are no possible worlds apart from the actual. The actual is the one and only world there is. If we take it to minds... well There is only one Mind.