Quoting John Collier :
"As I have tried to argue above, to avoid reductionism in reality as
opposed to in logic and mathematics I think we need the additional
condition of dissipation (what I call nonHamiltonian mechanics
elsewhere -- the usual condition of conservation breaks down due to
Dear folks,
Overall, I agree with Gordana. I have one, perhaps very large, correction
though. I will go through this bit by bit (no pun intended). I have been
planning to jump into this discussion, but a visit here (UFBA) by
Stewart Newman has kept me busy. He gave lots of examples of
non-comput