Re: Determinism, -- a.k.a. physicalism --, has never been so alive and well.
- From: RadicalLibertarian@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 1 Apr 2006 06:54:32 -0800
boson boss wrote:
Scale is fundamental. Just like length and time.
No! In elementary school yes because bellow some age they could go
crazy or something. They are not fundamental truly, but
epistemologically - it is a matter of sobriety and abstract thinking.
So for example, everything is energy, everything is "quality", even
spacetime.
The idea that scale is fundamental is quite realistic. The notion of
energy is great for engineering, but energy does not explain itself or
why it exists in the first place.
Whether wave, particle, or whatever else it could be, one thing is for
sure, all energy is somehow structural, and the relative scales of
structure is important.
If you want to model the universe using cellular automata you will be
forced to deal with the notion of scale.
I also think that perhaps the best way to model waves using
dimensionality as a medium of propagation is by using cellular
automata, and again you'd have to consider scale. You might be able to
do this with calculus, but I've never seen it done that way -
If you have a function of 3 variables, you could consider it to
represent time dilation, but I dont know if that would really work
otherwise soemone would have done it already. Maybe there is some
problem with that approach ?
Well, some people simply will never accept the idea that the universe is
anything other than somehow deterministic.
I have no idea what this means and who said it. If this is about seeing
the future - big deal. If this is about design - everything can be
designed. But karamba grande! Can "free motion" be designed? or
"emptiness"? or "spontaneououity"?
Does randomness exist ? Does it not exist ? That's really an
interesting question and has a lot to do with whether the universe is
determined.
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