Re: Universal grammar

In article <1162971773.041884.260480@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Franz
Gnaedinger" <frgn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As I didn't study physics I can't discuss these topics much
further. I just see Goethe's world formula "all is equal, all
unequal" take over. Mathematicians and physicists believe
they had eliminated, or in any case tamed, ambiguity.

I think ambiguity is not as such a problem, even though one must
who figure out how to handle it efficiently, but cognition.

Now
it returns via the black hole information paradox.

I haven't followed this much in detail, but the use of "information" here
is just a catchy way to put it. That is, it does not have anything to do
with a formal definition of information as a physically measurable
quantity, or at least not in a accepted way in a verified physical theory.

People
will spend hundred more years taming the new ambiguities,
and when a genius solves the problem by means of a
revolutionary theory based on information, apparently more
fundamental than matter and energy, someone will ask
a funny question, and a new paradox will raise from a
previously unsuspicious corner. It goes on and on. If we
can learn one thing from the history of the sciences, then
this. The mountain grows while we are climbing. We are
always just below the top. One more common effort and
we shall make it - happy illusion that blissfully enchants
every young generation.

My guess is asking such questions and attempting to answer them is a
method of expanding knowledge.

--
Hans Aberg
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