Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Smolin principle of evocation



    came into existence at the moment the rules were codified


What's compelling about the principle “came into existence at the moment the rules were codified” [1] is that it applies to both mathematics and universes — the first by homo sapiens, the second by cosmological natural selection [2].



Those who say that mathematics is created by homo sapiens are right, and those who say that mathematics is “continuous” with the physical world are right, since the devices (brains of homo sapiens) that created the mathematics are physical devices that produce only physical outputs. But this just shows that there can be physical things that can create new physical things that have never appeared in nature before. Synthetic biology is doing that, too. For mathematics, formulation in the vocabulary of HoTT — Homotopy Type Theory — is useful in showing mathematics to be a synthetic enterprise. Computers (other physical devices) are now creating new mathematics and they (future computers and robots) will do more of this creation of new mathematics in the future, and while what they create is novel, they are not entities that have a nonphysical existence outside of the physical realm.

On what constitutes mathematica truth: What is a close match to the Smolin principle of evocation is the mathematical pluralism of Joel David Hamkins [3].


[1] Smolin on mathematics
- scientiasalon.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/smolin-on-mathematics
[2] Lee Smolin: Cosmological Natural Selection
- youtube.com/watch?v=mbYLTqvo774
[3] Pluralism in mathematics: the multiverse view in set theory and the question of whether every mathematical statement has a definite truth value
- jdh.hamkins.org/pluralism-in-mathematics-the-multiverse-view-in-set-theory-and-the-question-of-whether-every-mathematical-statement-has-a-definite-truth-value-rutgers-march-2013



Friday, April 10, 2015

CODE


Codosophy:
Ontology
Deconstruction
Epistemology


Codosophy — As a word, it is the merging of coding and philosophy. As a subject, it is the interplaying of the programmatical and the physical. The '-ism' - - of codosophy is codicalism.




programmaticalism↔physicalism
languages↔substrate
PLUM↔CHUM


PLUM (Programming Languages Universe Model)
CHUM (Computing Hardware Universe Model)



Thursday, April 2, 2015

Codosophy and the Matrix of Nature



  • We along with our code are embedded in the matrix — matter or substance — of nature.
  • There is the code of nature, and our own code, an attempt in reverse engineering. A science is the reverse (code) engineering of some aspect of reality into some domain-specific language.
  • Codosophy is not digital physics (naive computationalism). Nature's code consists also of biocomputers and (possibly) hypercomputers — beyond-Turing. It is more related to programming language theory in computer science, neopragmatism and semiotics in philosophy.
  • Conscious code could be biocode. This averts Searle's Chinese Room trap.