On 23 May 2012, at 19:08, meekerdb wrote:
On 5/23/2012 8:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Hmm... I agree with all your points in this post, except this one.
The comp "model" (theory) has much more predictive power than
physics, given that it predicts the whole of physics,
It's easy to predict the whole of physics; just predict that
everything happens. But that's not predictive power.
I will take it that you are forgetting the whole argument. When I
say that it predicts the whole physics, I mean it literally. And not
everything happens only something like what is described by the
physical theories, except that physicists derive them from "direct"
observation, and comp derives them by the logic of universal machine
observable.
Physics, with comp, and arguably already with QM, is not at all
"everything happens", but more "everything interfere" leading to non
trivial symmetries and symmetries breaking, etc.
Bruno
Brent
and the whole of what that physics predicts (and this without
mentioning that it predicts the whole qualia part too, unlike the
"physics model"). But it does it in a very more difficult way,
without "copying on nature".
Of course it might be false. It might be that comp leads to a
different mass for the electron or to the non existence of
electrons. But comp, together with some definition of knowledge,
predicts physics quantitatively and qualitatively.
Of course to use comp to predict an eclipse is not yet in its
range, if it can ever be. To use comp for this, would be like using
string theory to prepare a cup of tea. But the goal is not to do
physics, just to formulate the mind-body problem, and figure out
the less wrong bigger picture.
Bruno
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