Re: MD Materialism and DQ

From: Scott Roberts (jse885@cox.net)
Date: Mon Jul 18 2005 - 17:42:37 BST

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    Ian,

    Ian said:
    For me MoQ is entirely consistent with being physicalist - and yes I
    do have a straight face. It's only inconsistent for people who hang on
    the the ancient notion that the physical world is made of particles of
    matter, rather than quality interactions of information. (That's me
    being pejorative BTW.)

    Scott:
    How do you distinguish physicalism from idealism, or is it your opinion that
    once physics is seen as quality interactions of information, the two become
    indistinguishable? I am, in fact, quite in agreement with this, as long as
    one doesn't assume that the informational interaction of, say, these posts,
    are built out of the informational interactions of leptons and quarks (or
    strings or whatever). And if one acknowledges that "quality interactions of
    information" implies conscious semiosis.

    I'm not all that familiar with Leibniz, but what you say also sounds a lot
    like his monadology: that his monads, in contrast with Newton's atoms,
    perceived and processed information.

    - Scott

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