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A relevant quote from Feynman's Nobel Lecture used as the epigraph in the preface to Visual Complex Analysis: Theories of the known, which are described by dif
by Koshkin 5y ago
A relevant quote from Feynman's Nobel Lecture used as the epigraph in the preface to Visual Complex Analysis:
Theories of the known, which are described by different physical ideas may be equivalent in all their predictions and are hence scientifically indistinguishable. However, they are not psychologically identical when trying to move from that base into the unknown. For different views suggest different kinds of modifications which might be made and hence are not equivalent in the hypotheses one generates from them in ones attempt to understand what is not yet understood.
- dang 5y agoI think there's an analogous point to be made about programming languages, which (if Turing-complete) are computationally indistinguishable, but which lead people to have different ideas when writing in them, and therefore lead to different sorts of programs.