On Jul 23, 12:21 am, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > "Forensically"?? Do we need a Weinberg-English dictionary?
I love forensically for this. It implies tracing a chain of cause backwards, in a clinical, detached, bloodless way. With each step of the regression, possibilities are narrowed down to fit the reality that we think we know now - the corpus. I'm saying that the corpus of our observation is not the observer. The math is derived from the physics, which is inexplicably given, as well as the physics being derived from math (which is inexplicably given as well, but it's logic is so compelling that it seduces us into imagining otherwise). What quarks do is not automatically what any imaginable hypothetical quark- analog would do. We see atoms behave in a way that can be explained by a quark model and then imagine that we can make a quark by exporting that model with sufficient detail into a computer. The model is a metaphor, it's not really something independent of our minds and bodies. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
