Ulla Mattfolk
Ulla,
Re consciousness:
As a result of experiments, physicists symbolically represent the world in terms of categories (like relative position), relationships between the categories, and numbers that apply to the categories. I.e., physicists basically represent the world in terms of equations and numbers, even though physicists know that equations, even equations with delta symbols, CAN’T represent a moving system.
I’m saying that cause, in a moving mathematical system, can only be symbolically represented via the use of statements containing algorithmic/ logical-connective symbols.
These algorithmic symbols, together with the symbols for the categories, equations and numbers, can be used in statements to represent the mathematical system’s (or small parts of the system’s) point-of-view knowledge/ awareness of multi-part situations, and can also be used in statements to represent the system (or small parts of the system) initiating and re-initiating number-jump movement in response to this point-of-view knowledge/awareness. These necessary underlying aspects of mathematics CAN’T be represented using the symbols for categories, equations and numbers alone.
But, the ONLY aspects of the world that can potentially be experimentally measured are the categories, like mass or relative position. NONE of the other mathematical or algorithmic symbols, whether alone or in statements, represent aspects of the world that can be measured.
Think about it. ONLY the categories can be measured. Equations, that represent mathematical relationships, represent an aspect of the world that can’t be measured. Statements containing algorithmic symbols, that represent the systems knowledge of it’s ever-changing multi-part situations, represent an aspect of the world that can’t be measured. I.e. individual low-level consciousness can potentially be algorithmically represented, but this aspect of the world can’t be measured, just like equations represent an aspect of the world that can’t be measured. ONLY the categories can be measured.
Re computers/ AIs: people create and use symbols in order to represent various aspects of the world. The voltages, transistors and circuits in computers/ AIs are being utilised by people as symbols. The symbols that represent mass do not create mass; the symbols that represent point-of-view knowledge/ awareness do not create point-of-view knowledge/ awareness.
