On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 09:46:11AM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 19 Jan 2014, at 22:41, Russell Standish wrote: > > > >I > >think we should keep all options on the table, and look for > >connections between them, as different techniques will provide those > >derivations more easily or more difficult. > > Keep in mind that the goal is not "doing physics", but solving the > mind-body problem (the hard problem of matter, and of > consciousness). >
I thought the goal was figure out where physical law comes from. > > > >Think about the effect of > >the AdS correspondence with string theory. > > AdS correspondence? > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS/CFT_correspondence for details, but the point is that there are two distinct physical theories, related by a duality, that are tractable in different domains, so solution to one theory can be used to inform the other in domains it is not tractable. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
