On Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at 1:25:19 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > You miss my point that no one, no physicists, no philosopher, starts out > by defining "primary matter". It is your invention as a straw man to be > defeated by computationalism. Some physicists and some philosophers may > suppose that the stuff described by physics is enough to explain the world > we observe; but most also suppose that it is not "primary". They look for > a deeper more unified ur-stuff and many physicists have followed Wheeler > and Tegmark in thinking of the equations of mathematical physics as simply > defining the ur-stuff. > > Brent >
This and other old philosophical ideas are of no utility in physics. There is no physical meaning to terms such as primary matter. LC -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
