Nancy Cartwright has argued that there are no fundamental laws as such. Only phenomenological/ constitutive
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“All laws are contingent” is probably my minimalist Hume++ epistemology. But inventions can be absolute. Therefore engineers are higher status than mathematicians or scientists. QED This is Rao’s law and theorem
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“Laws are contingent, inventions are absolute” is a great argument for asking “how can we do x” by default rather than “can we do x”
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Replying to @harmonylion1 @vgr and
That’s cute, but ontologically incoherent. Reality decides, in every moment, what subsequent state of reality is “invented” The laws of physics aren’t immutable, but that doesn’t make them contingent. As formula: “Time is real. The present is contingent. Causation is fundamental”
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Replying to @hyperauxetic @vgr and
Should be fine considering I seriously doubt causation is fundamental. More “laws are contingent”
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Replying to @harmonylion1 @hyperauxetic and
The most conservative position I’ve been able to define is that events, change, and perspectives are real. All else is Trumpism. Causation isn’t a well posed idea once you go quantum. Only entanglements rippling across perspectives.
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Replying to @vgr @harmonylion1 and
The Schrodinger equation is linear in time. Let’s not be into interpretations of QM, but causation doesn’t fail, just notions of locality (according to Bell’s Inequalities). And I follow Smolin on time now more than Barbour or Huw Price (though I used be with the latter two).
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Replying to @hyperauxetic @vgr and
And to lay my cards, I’m a Russelian monist with protopanpsychist leanings and a strong affinity for Whitheadean process metaphysics and a confidence that something like discretized elemental networks (a la LQG with diffeomorohism invariance) evolving in time is the best physics.
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Ok actual lol 
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Replying to @vgr @hyperauxetic and
Now I must define myself by futurama referencepic.twitter.com/8BM5rwHATe
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