Re: virus: maxims and ground rules and suppositions

Eric Boyd (6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca)
Tue, 18 May 1999 13:06:05 -0400

Hi,

psypher <overload@fastmail.ca> writes:
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...no, no, no, no, no. Tempting (very tempting) but no. The universe qua universe is continuous. We FIND quanta because our construct is a model. It's a very good model, it includes a great deal, but it is still a model. Information gets left out, the more complex the construct at any given level, the more information is left out in total.
...we cut away with occams razor and label the components. We're a sophisticated species and we've found ways to sharpen our blade so the pieces keep getting smaller, and smaller, and smaller - but they exist because we've been cutting, not because they're components.
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Interesting theory. If the universe is *not* quanta, how do you explain the particle nature of light that we observe? (e.g. sensitive photo-sensors can record independent "quanta" of light as they strike it)

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...yup. I think Hermits point is that the frame of reference is which that statement is embedded is communicable [through the vehicle of mathematics] to any conscious being. He thinks that makes is a true statement. [I think he's wrong]
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Yes! This is what I have been saying!

ERiC