The East, the West and the universal machine.
Bruno Marchal
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology December 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.08.017 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Buddhism |
| Keywords | Church Descartes Dream East Gödel Hinduism Hypostasis Milinda Plato Plotinus Self-reference Soul Taoism Universal machine Vedânta West |
| Key points | Argues that the theology of Universal Numbers/Machines can illuminate the apparent dichotomy between Eastern and Western spirituality, and that this theology is testable because the mechanist hypothesis in cognitive science requires physics to be retrieved from it in a unique introspective way. The author claims it is the only theory known to fit both personal consciousness and quanta and quantum relationships. |
Abstract
After reviewing the basic of theology of Universal Numbers/Machines, as detailed in Marchal (2007), I illustrate how that body of thought might be used to shed some light upon the apparent dichotomy in Eastern/Western spirituality. This paper relies entirely on my previous interdisciplinary work in mathematical logic, computer science and machine's theology, where "theology" is used here in the sense of Plato: it is the truth, or the "truth-theory" (in the sense of logicians) about a machine that the machine can either deduce from some of its primitive beliefs, or can be intuited in some sense that eventually is made clear through the modal logic of machine self-reference. Such a theology appears to be testable, because it has been shown that physics has to be necessarily retrieved from it when we assume the mechanist hypothesis in the cognitive sciences, and this in a unique precise (introspective) way, so that we only need to compare the physics of the introspective machine with the physics inferred from the human observation; and up to now, it is the only theory known to fit both the existence of personal "consciousness" (undoubtable yet unjustifiable truth) and quanta and quantum relationships (Marchal, 1998; Marchal, 2004; Marchal, 2013; Marchal, 2015).
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