The Critical Rationalist Vol. 01 No. 02 ISSN: 1393-3809 26-Nov-1996
References
6 The Possibility of Infinitely New
Information Processing: Why Tipler Needs World 3
(66) One might think that there is a lacuna in my argument. The fact that an invention can be applied in an infinite number of significantly different ways does not show that those ways are all economic or even useful. But this misunderstands my case. I am not expounding an a priori argument that concludes that resources are necessarily infinite. I am making a conjecture that resources are infinite in the long-term and the trying to explain how this is possible by looking at the interaction of Worlds 1, 2 and 3.
(67) I think that my argument points to the World 3 abstract structure of our resources and inventions that acts as both a "scaffolding of thought" for the inventor and as a means whereby the human mind can endlessly expand the usefulness of the world. Whether this be for good or ill, is another question.
References
6 The Possibility of Infinitely New
Information Processing: Why Tipler Needs World 3
The Critical Rationalist Vol. 01 No. 02 ISSN: 1393-3809 26-Nov-1996
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