Recent content by Jimster41

Thanks, it was a caching issue. Once I deleted the draft and tried again it worked.

I've searched but I can't seem to find anything describing the max files size one can attach in a conversation thread?

Are you saying quantum coherence is a purely human creation that nature only destroys?

I got excited by all the talk about ontological contextual emergence. Re-reading clarified that you consider spacetime source elements as psi-epistemic and what is real are classical events. Is that correct? I also saw a line where you seemed to leave open that what is considered a “classical...

Ch 4 fig 4.20 re K. I want to get this question down because it seems clear re that diagram. In RBW where “all contextual levels” interact… I buy the “boundary of a boundary is zero” math but I am struggling to imagine a single boundary that is really zero (an experiment with any real...

fair enough. Perhaps a dialectic oscillator. For my part I think I wonder if the opposite of your first statement, if true, could help explain the second. IOW if spacetime was continuous there would not be brains, just brain (or some barely conceivable “one”). I.e. Discrete spacetime could help...

Interesting, and our brains are or are not? I would argue the fact mathematics had to be invented to support detailed agreement between individuals is totally dependent on the fundamental nature of spacetime.

So are you asserting reality is a smooth, infinitely differentiable a continuum? Has that been proven? My only problem is that lines and point have these “negligible widths and sizes” which sounds a lot like “infinity”.

I get that you can keep the notion of “tangent point” on a curve without shrinking the length of the deltas all the way to 1/infinity by invoking “embedded affine sub spaces”… so the tool is well defined, and wildly useful. I am not suggesting it isn’t, or that people shouldn’t learn it fapp...

Taken from wiki on “Limit of a function”. “Formal definitions, first devised in the early 19th century, are given below. Informally, a function fassigns an output f(x) to every input x. We say that the function has a limit L at an input p, if f(x) gets closer and closer to L as x moves closer...

@RUTA I do sort of buy a little the problem of Bourne’s critique. The argument that “we need to be able to discuss real events” is in a sense claiming a privilege of observation. i agree we do but still, feels like “saying simultaneity is subjectively or even objectively indefinite” would be...

Difficulty with Infinity as “just another math widget” aside, I wonder if continuum assumptions are a barrier to answers. “Evolutionary Dynamics” by Novak, specifically the phenomenon of evolutionary drift as an analogue of spontaneous symmetry breaking left me wondering if evolution as a...

my understanding of calculus is that it depends on the rules of convergence at infinite limits. I like the convergence part. I don’t like the introduction of something as as bizarre as “infinity” it’s like fundamentally undefinable except in the utterly abstract sense. Always found that frustrating.

O Interesting. It’s almost like you are making the opposite argument you are trying to make. Also, sort of thought the idea of a discrete limit h (and or b) functioning like the speed limit of light was a key to @RUTA block world reconciliation of QM and GR. I agree with him and Pontryagin...

Doesn’t mean they exist.