Dear colleagues,
Let me reply in chronological order:
Stan:
“It seems to me that this implies, in any non-mechanistic system, semiosis --
that is to say, a process of interpretation by the agent. Thus, intelligence
would be related to the viewpoint of the agent, which would be located by its
Dear Joseph,
Yes, I have deliberately stuck to metaphorical usage.
The vacuum is the ground state of a quantum system, which is a
difficult thing to get access to, even theoretically. There are very
few cases of studying excitations around such a ground state. Most
perturbative methods,
