On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 01:08:37PM -0400, John Clark wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:29 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Quantum mechanics works very well, but every time we've tested it > >> with experiment the values we put into it and the values we measure after > >> the experiment have only had values at best a dozen or so places to the > >> right of the decimal point. Are we justified in extrapolating from that > >> that it would work just as well if there were a infinite number if digits > >> to the right of the decimal point? I honestly don't know. > >> > > > > > I think it's just a convenience for reasoning about rational numbers. > > But then I also think rational numbers are just part of our model of the > > world. > > > > I'm more worried about the Real Numbers than the Rational Numbers, > particularly the non-computable Real Numbers which are almost all of them. > And they're certainly part of our model of the world just as epicycles and > crystalline spheres surrounding the Earth were part of the Medieval model, > but I want to know if the Real Numbers are part of, not of our model, but > part of our the world . > > > John K Clark >
Bruno's argument shows that they must be a part of the phenomenal (experienced) world if COMP is true. They needn't be ontological, though. But then that's exactly the argument you reject! -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
