> On 28 Oct 2019, at 12:34, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 4:16 AM Philip Thrift <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > We don't even know yet what gravity is. > > I think General Relativity gives us a better fundamental understanding of > what gravity is than we have for understanding what electromagnetism is, all > Einstein starts with is the existence of movement, that is spacetime, and > mass. Electromagnetism needs all that too but also needs to assume the > existence of something called "electrical charge". > > > "we could be leaving an age of analysis to enter an age of synthesis. We > > may be synthesizing things (materials science, synthetic biology, > > nanotechnology) that we cannot analyze (explain why they work)." > > Science can tell us how things work, but as for why...... logically the chain > of why questions either goes on forever or it doesn't and ends in a brute > fact, after that there is no why, that's just the way things are.
Digital Mechanism explains the why, at least in the sense that it justify that everything comes from (any) universal machinery, and that we cannot justify the existence of a universal machine or machinery without assuming one at the start. Then, in any universal machinery we can explain what is consciousness and where it comes from, and then it explains constructively how to derive the laws on the physical appearance (the observable) (by a first person (plural) statistics). Advantage: we get a theory of qualia, with the quanta as a subpart of it, and the quanta part can be verified experimentally, providing an indirect testing of the qualial theory. If the physics was Newtonian, that would be an argument against Mechanism, although if we keep up Mechanism, it would be an argument that we are in a designed simulation (which is a bit too much “conspiratorial” for me). Bruno > > John K Clark > > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv14cdN5LHd4VNC6xoiZsGd8D56JUpHR%3D9hPh-N5%2BA3jJQ%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv14cdN5LHd4VNC6xoiZsGd8D56JUpHR%3D9hPh-N5%2BA3jJQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/BA728934-708C-42E1-B636-5614E3AD17AD%40ulb.ac.be.
