On 6/15/2019 12:29 AM, Philip Thrift wrote:
I've basically lived my life believing what I want, I think.
I'm not trying to /convince/ anyone of anything.
One thing I might try to convince people of:
*Physics is fiction.*
Vic Stenger would have said "Physics is models".
There are always alternative models, and new ones likely coming in the
future.
To find /reality in a model/ (to make truth claims in the vocabulary
of a model) is a form of religious fundamentalism.
You say you're not trying to convince anyone of anything, but you
repeatedly slap pejorative labels on other viewpoints. You use them
like Trump uses nick names. I avoids actually making an argument
against them while disparaging them.
So in this specific instance: Where do you look for reality? Or do you
suppose there is no reality. If you trained a neural network so that it
could produce all the predictions about physics problems that the
community of physicists do, would it be just as good as the theories it
replaces?
Brent
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