Dear John and colleagues,
Thanks for the rigorous philosophical directions to connect with. Getting
ahead with the speculation business, here there are a few related "pills"
that perhaps could be matched with aspects of the current discussion:
-- physical (and biological?) information: as a distinction on the adjacent
(taking "distinction" in Karl's set theory sense).
-- principle of "limited information" (behind measurement, complementarity,
and perhaps entanglement?).
-- vacuum energy and quantum fluctuations: as a result of the inner
generativity / destructivity of the "engines" of nature laws imprinted on
space-time?
-- motion: not as merely displacement but as "reconstruction" (along
information flows ? "it" from "bit"?).
-- if laws of nature do process "information" and are themselves "info",
What kind of physicality they do purport? (to Michael Deveraux's
consideration: "information is always physical").
with best greetings,
Pedro
At 15:08 12/06/2006, you wrote
>>Dear colleagues,
>>
>>let me add another aficionado naive speculation on the matters below :
>>
>>We might regard every locus of space-time as having the capacity to
>>instantiate the whole laws of nature, in relation to any existential
>>perturbation by what we call matter, energy, etc. If there is an
>>"information processing capacity" strictly by adjacency, in
which
>>informational perturbations --physical "state" information--
are passed
>>or reconstructed only from locus to locus..
>>For the non-technical view, a sense of wholeness, of global
"entity", has
>>to be added to interpretations of space-time...
>
>Seems right to me. It also allows application of some (minimalist) views
>of causation to the QM world. Much of this is in our forthcoming book (All
>things must go: Information theoretic ontic structural realism, Oxford UP
>probably 2007), Ross, Ladyman, Spurrett, Collier. We look at open and
>closed block universes, among other things...
>Cheers,
>John
>
>
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