Re: Which is Fundamental?

2005-05-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 12-mai-05, à 05:53, Lee Corbin a écrit : Bruno, I certainly wish you the absolute best of luck in deriving a law of physics from comp! Getting a version of string theory that afforded predictions would be as nothing in comparison from starting from incompleteness (in math) and deriving physics

RE: Which is Fundamental?

2005-05-11 Thread Lee Corbin
Stathis writes > [Lee wrote] > > About observer-moments, I would say what LaPlace answered to > > Napoleon about a deity: "I have no need of that hypothesis". > > [Bruno responded] > > But you cannot say they does not exist. You would be lying to yourself. You > > are living just one of them rig

RE: Which is Fundamental?

2005-05-11 Thread Lee Corbin
Hal wrote > Lee Corbin writes: > > Why not instead adopt the scientific model? That is, that > > we are three-dimensional creatures ensconced in a world > > governed by the laws of physics, or, what I'll call the > > "atoms and processes" model. About observer-moments, I would > > say what LaPla

Re: Which is Fundamental?

2005-05-10 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Bruno, Lee: Le 10-mai-05, à 06:33, Lee Corbin a écrit : Why not instead adopt the scientific model? That is, that we are three-dimensional creatures ensconced in a world governed by the laws of physics, or, what I'll call the "atoms and processes" model. Because we don't need that hypothesis. Tha

Re: Which is Fundamental?

2005-05-10 Thread "Hal Finney"
Lee Corbin writes: > Why not instead adopt the scientific model? That is, that > we are three-dimensional creatures ensconced in a world > governed by the laws of physics, or, what I'll call the > "atoms and processes" model. About observer-moments, I would > say what LaPlace answered to Napoleon

Re: Which is Fundamental?

2005-05-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 10-mai-05, à 06:33, Lee Corbin a écrit : Why not instead adopt the scientific model? That is, that we are three-dimensional creatures ensconced in a world governed by the laws of physics, or, what I'll call the "atoms and processes" model. Because we don't need that hypothesis. That's nice bec