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Eh, you're not explaining universal truths here, you're just anthropomorphizing. Why must it have appendages, organs, or populations? Why presuppose that its co
by gmfawcett 4y ago
Eh, you're not explaining universal truths here, you're just anthropomorphizing. Why must it have appendages, organs, or populations? Why presuppose that its conceptual model includes particles at all? What if a vast, hyper-continuous intelligence simply cannot comprehend the concept of being discrete?
- naasking 4y agoFirstly, those were just examples of commonly countable structures, even if they're not universal (which is debatable). Discretely countable structures are literally everywhere and fundamentally inescapable, which is why I mentioned physics. I didn't presuppose physics, the discrete structure of physical reality is directly observable, it's not some fiction we made up. Secondly, what we know must be bound by what we've observed. You can imagine any sort of being you like, but that doesn't make your imagined creature logically coherent or physically realizable. Any physically realizable intelligence must: a) Be differentiable from its environment: that means it must have some enclosing boundary separating an inside that's different than an outside. b) Have internal structure: intelligence by necessity is structured thought. Structured thought entails differentiable physical structure to hold structured thoughts. Such structure by itself is necessarily countable, being made of matter.