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Yea, “religious” in the context of physics means, for me at least, more like “metaphysical” (with a nod to Brian Green & a caveat that nowhere near a profession
by balsam 5y ago
Yea, “religious” in the context of physics means, for me at least, more like “metaphysical” (with a nod to Brian Green & a caveat that nowhere near a professional unnatural philosopher am I). Should I say metatheoretical? As you both reveal, we have already here from 2 fields of physics each an equally promising definite sounding but potentially hairy (even divergent) description of ”emergence”. One seemingly about logic and the other about ..computational complexity(?)
Thanks for the hair loss tip! Have been glancing thru the recent lit (admittedly thanks to the quantacoverage)—- it was all “no-hair” and no “hair-loss”. Seems like the term “hair loss” went out of fashion before i was born?
- BlueTemplar 5y agoMight be not so divergent if this emergence of new theories is in any way "surprising". Potentially related : the concept of "surprisal", and how entropy is a superfluous concept - since it's just the lack of information that an observer has about a system.