On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 11:51:06 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > With mechanism, there is no choice: physics must be explained in term of > number’s dream statistics. The logic of this gives a quantum logic, mincing > nature confirming Mechanism (and its immaterialism). > > Until we get evidence for some matter (like observing a discrepancy > between the physics extracted from arithmetic), it is just premature to > assume some material world, especially for singularising some computations, > which would be like invoking a god, indeed. > > Bruno > > > I don't get "physics extracted form arithmetic":
There are dozens of so-called quantum-gravity theories that have been written over the past 40 years. Including the dark matter, dark energy, cosmological inflation variants, maybe dozens of dozens theories. Most on arXiv. All these to some degree are just as good as the other in the sense that there is nothing wrong with their mathematics. You put "what follows from what" of one ot those theories in a theorem proving checking system and they should check out according to following mathematical rules. The only way to "weed them out" is with data from observations of a supposedly actual real world out there. Doesn't that suggest an "external" material reality? Otherwise, why do experiments or record observations if all theories are "mathematically" neutral? And there are formulations of QM (like Dowker's "histories") where there is no "quantum logic" involved.It can be dispensed with. - pt -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
