I've read it... well I've read parts of it anyway... I downloaded a copy from the net, I don't know if that's also the final book version of his Theory of Nothing... The problem is I'm not too good with mathematical and logical formalisms (I have dyscalculia, I mix the symbols up)... So what I understood from Russell's book is rather limited, I'm sad to say... Anyway, I printed a copy of Russell's book but it's storeda way now since we are in the middle of moving... I intend to delve into Russell's book more extensively later... What I gather from Russell is that he too starts with an information-theoretic account of nothing.... I appreciate his argument that an informational nothing is equivalent with a state of infinite complexity (Babel's library) where it is impossible to find relevant info and so the informational content is zero... It is unclear to me, however, how he is able to derive reality from such a situation... Does Russell's scheme, too, involve something like a spontaneous symmetry breaking of the informational nothing?
Op donderdag 13 november 2014 08:23:01 UTC+1 schreef Liz R: > > Have you read Russell's "Theory of Nothing" ? If not, it could give you a > better handle on this sort of thing. > > -- 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.
