And yes this is one of those pieces I have in mind among some others:https://jacobitemag.com/2019/07/15/disintegration/ …
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
do you actually think that's an argument against the physics this piece bases itself on?
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade
You mean that the core thesis of the piece is against the principles of modern physics / scientific theories?
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @NegarestaniReza
All Reza's 'arguments' end up as nebulous appeals to authority. "Experts agree mumble mumble."
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isn't cyborg nomade making the same appeal to authority with Physics?
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the authority a physical law yields isn't a credential.
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also like, physical laws aren't real, they're useful generalizations over all the observations that have been made
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Physical laws are benchmark theoretical entities. If by real you mean some unknown unknown then no, they are not. They are essentially modeled mathematically after a series of experiments. This neither make them uncontested or impervious to the development of math models.
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I don't know why, but it always seems to me that you're repeating the standard sociological trope that, since we theorise through languages, there's nothing outside of them you do know that physical models refer back to something outside of them, right?
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No, that's not the point. You can't think of an objective reality if you don't have a systematic or formal intersubjective medium. Objectivity without intersubjectivity is just private experiences and thoughts.
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ok, granted, science is a social endeavour. still, there are things about which physical talk about. don't you agree?
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