Russell, You actually claim that the conservation of energy and time invariance depend on "how humans see the world"?
If so I disagree, Edgar On Friday, March 7, 2014 11:53:40 PM UTC-5, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 05:46:58PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > Russell, > > > > Now that is true solipsism. A rather strange view of two projectors, > each > > viewing what it projects and taking that as reality. But in that model > each > > observer is a reflection of the projection of the other. So how do they > > confirm similarity since for two things to be similar they must be > > independent, and each here is just a refection of a projection of the > other? > > > > O, now I get it. Only the reflection of the projection by Russell is > really > > real! His projection is just nice enough to project imaginary other > > observers as being similar to himself? > > > > Somehow I think this model leads to consistency problems. At least it > seems > > awfully lonely.... > > > > Edgar > > > > I don't think you do get it, because solipsism is not the endpoint of > such a view. > > An example of such a "reflection" is the conservation law of energy, > which turns out to be a consequence of our requirement for physics to > be invariant through time, ie a "reflection" of how we see the > world. See Noether's theorem. > > To argue your case, you would need to come up with some physical > property that is indubitably _not_ a consequence of how we perceive > the world. I don't think you can do that. It is a very high standard > of proof. Consequently, it does not follow that intersubjective > consistency necessarily implies the existence of some external > ontological reality. > > Cheers > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected]<javascript:> > 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/d/optout.
