Some rough working notes, me thinking out loud: "The varieties of material existence": http://cognitivemedium.com/vme pic.twitter.com/g66P85yiVZ
Show this thread
-
Here's Simon's book on the distinction:https://www.amazon.com/Sciences-Artificial-Herbert-Simon/dp/0262691914/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537418555&sr=8-1&keywords=herb+simon+artificial …
Show this thread
And some speculation about whether the notion of fundamental particles even makes sense, since there are systems in which it's possible to give two equivalent descriptions in terms of entirely different sets of fundamental particles.pic.twitter.com/r2FsiRkrdS
-
-
A particularly strong version of this might result in a point of view in which the fundamental particles and forces barely matter at all, and what really matters is notions like universality in computation, programmability, and some sufficiently broad notion of phases of matter.
Show this thread -
If you read this far, thanks for indulging my thinking aloud!
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Do you mean just in the standard sense that says the standard model (or whatever we should be using) is the fixed point of some RG flow from whatever the correct Planck-scale theory is?
- 5 more replies
New conversation -
-
-
This is interesting, sounds like quantum state depends on measurement apparatus?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.