On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 5:42:23 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 11 Nov 2019, at 10:58, Philip Thrift <cloud...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > If reality is pure "information" (as a lot of physicists today seem to > believe, and that belief is required for Many Worlds), than copying > (branching) is free. > > > But many physicists who claim that there is only information usually think > about quantum information, and they takes this (physical) notion for > granted. It is still a form of materialism, as it assumes some quantum > formalism, instead of deriving it from arithmetic (or from any universal > machinery) as it should. > > Bruno > > >
Basically "quantum formalism" [ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quantum-field-theory/ ] is just a lot of goofing around with complex numbers instead of real numbers. It's still numbers. And that "they [physicists] takes this (physical) notion for granted" doesn't seem right, as you watch many of them in the media talk. @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/ed3467cb-196d-40d2-b54c-618e933d59ad%40googlegroups.com.
