Recent content by apeiron

Thanks. Beautifully simple.

Just curious. The Planck length is lpl = (hG/c3)1/2 = 10-33cm And it seems intuitive that it's c cube because space has three dimensions for the action. But the Planck time is tpl = (hG/c5)1/2 = 10-43s So is there some obvious physical reason why c is to the power of five here?

Even granted dual aspect monism - which explains nothing, simply states something to be in a way that contradicts our instinct for reality to be reducible via its interactions - I can't see how you would map the concept of information to the pilot wave. The position of the particle is not also...

From memory, that study was flawed because it compared US wealth distribution to Swedish income distribution. So yes, people said they preferred what looked like greater equality, but greater even than exists in Sweden apparently.

The interaction between particle and pilot wave was being treated as a mechanistic issue in the Riggs paper you cited surely? But this is way off the point of your OP. What is relevant to the OP is how various interpretations might apply to "it from bit". My general answer on that is that...

Remember why I mentioned the third law. You said you couldn't think of a reason to reject a model without a back-reaction. Yet most people would agree that the third law is indeed a problem for mechanistic models - hence the concern in BM over answering this issue in the papers you cited. It...

It seems to be BM which has the problem with the third law according to Riggs. And he has to invent some recoil-less energy swapping going on between a particle and its pilot wave as a way of getting out of the bind. At least it is not as crazy as the active information story I guess. But it...

That response would be a lot more convincing if you could offer concrete examples of well-understood systems in which there is in fact a one-way interaction with no back-reaction. Newton's third law alone would seem to suggest that this cannot be the case. You keep using "we are just dumb...

Focusing on this question of whether equality of opportunity will in fact result in an overall poverty of outcome, let's consider this very socialistic design for an education system. All education 100% publicly funded. All school materials provided free. Dental and health care free. Travel...

In the UK, you have researchers like Richard Wilkinson publishing on how even relative poverty has corrosive effects - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_G._Wilkinson Have you been reading Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class? From the book's blurb...

I'm really struggling to see how you can support this claim that the communist utopia or Marxian socialism is about "complete equality of outcome". If you are saying Marx discussed this, where exactly? And in what sense are you suggesting that outcome and opportunity are two sides of the same...

Do catalysts exist in some Platonic sense as necessary ideas that create a material effect without being in turn affected by the fact there is that successful effect? Life invents catalysts (enzymes) to exert top-down control over cellular chemistry. Industrial chemists do likewise to control...

Can you show me where in your quote from Marx that he is arguing for an enforced equality of outcome rather than a general equality of opportunity? In his ideal world (apparently modeled on the life of an English country gent) you would be free to do all these things, but by what leap of...

A communist utopia does not attempt to force exact equality on people. That is a strawman argument. Instead it speaks of removing various constraints on the masses. The utopian view aspires to a general freedom from oppression, alienation and scarcity. Historically it was a reaction to the...

The problem here is that people seem quite happy about reducing biology to a material basis, so why in principle can't neurology follow suit? If life is not an immaterial force, why should mind be presumed to be any different? Yes, different explanatory frameworks are required. So biologists...