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I think you'd probably be interested in Gerard 't Hooft's latest work: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1548 https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1548 It's rather, shall we say
by not_kurt_godel 7y ago
I think you'd probably be interested in Gerard 't Hooft's latest work: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1548 https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1548 It's rather, shall we say, controversial (that is: widely rejected by his peers), but it's an attempt to construct a framework through which the laws of the universe can be interpreted as deterministic which leverages the sorts of epistemological concepts you seem to be interested in.
(That being said: I personally find "is there an amoeba on Europa?" to be supremely interesting, but to each their own.)
- AndrewKemendo 7y agoThanks for this, I'll definitely take a look. My concern always, as you point out, is falling into crackpottery territory. Hopefully being acutely aware of that serves as an inoculation to some degree. I should also state, I certainly find the concept of life on other planets extremely fascinating. However as I said above its insufficient to give clarity to some of the more fundamentally existential questions around our existence.
- not_kurt_godel 7y agoI should also mention - there is quite a bit of discussion on 't Hooft's work on StackOverflow, including heavy participation by 't Hooft himself. I don't have any pointers handy, but they should be fairly easy to discover with a minimal amount of searching.