Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 695
Physics/Dennett: physics is true throughout the universe, such as mathematics. BarrowVs.
I 177
System/Mathematics/Minsky/Dennett: Question: could there be another arithmetic that would be equally good? (> alien intelligence).
Minsky: No, there could not. The reason for this is the "scantiness principle"! If two relatively simple processes have produced similar products, these products are usually completely identical!
For example: Dennett: let us look at the "quantity of all possible processes" e.g. Turing machines, computer programs. Apart from vanishing exceptions, the vast majority of these processes do nothing at all!
If you only find two that do something similar, then they are almost always connected at some level of analysis through a single process. >Analysis.
I 178
Minsky: a structure that searches through the simplest processes will soon find fragments that do not necessarily look arithmetic, but are arithmetic! Fact of the geometry of the computing universe (library). A world much more limited than the world of real things.
Dennett: this applies not only to arithmetic, but to all necessary truths!
II 77
Reason/Existence/Ontology/Dennett: for millions of years there were reasons, but nobody existed who formulated reasons, represented reasons, or even appreciated them in the strict sense. Cf. >Realism, >Platonism.