On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 5:42:23 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 11 Nov 2019, at 10:58, Philip Thrift <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > If reality is pure "information" (as a lot of physicists today seem to > believe, and that belief is required for Many Worlds), than copying > (branching) is free. > > > But many physicists who claim that there is only information usually think > about quantum information, and they takes this (physical) notion for > granted. It is still a form of materialism, as it assumes some quantum > formalism, instead of deriving it from arithmetic (or from any universal > machinery) as it should. > > Bruno > > >
Basically "quantum formalism" [ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quantum-field-theory/ ] is just a lot of goofing around with complex numbers instead of real numbers. It's still numbers. And that "they [physicists] takes this (physical) notion for granted" doesn't seem right, as you watch many of them in the media talk. @philipthrift -- 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/ed3467cb-196d-40d2-b54c-618e933d59ad%40googlegroups.com.
