Re: [FRIAM] "self-organization"

2018-01-12 Thread Eric Smith
Hi Nick, I will speak only for myself: This is another of those unfortunate terms, like Emergence, which is used by a variety of people in a variety of contexts to — they intend — refer to any ones among a variety of ideas that certainly are not operationally all the same, even if some of them

[FRIAM] "self-organization"

2018-01-12 Thread Nick Thompson
Hi, everybody, The term "self-organizing" has always seemed a mis-nomer, almost an oxymoron. In that connection, I took an interest in the following quote from Mary Jane West-Eberhardt's enormous, DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY AND EVOLUTION. (p. 59, bottom of column one) Extreme modular flexib

Re: [FRIAM] Many Interacting Worlds

2018-01-12 Thread Pieter Steenekamp
It's very difficult to form intuition about it, but until a better interpretation of Schroedinger's wave equation and other quantum mechanical concepts comes along (quite possible), I accept the multiverse interpretation as the best interpretation thereof. The quantum mechanical multiverse hypothe

[FRIAM] Many Interacting Worlds

2018-01-12 Thread Jochen Fromm
What do you think of the "Many Interacting Worlds" theory? Russ shared it on Google+http://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/a-new-hypothesis-suggests-that-parallel-universes-might-interact-after-all The idea is that interactions between many interacting classical worlds lead to quantum effects in th

Re: [FRIAM] Awesome! one step closer to startreky inetneret

2018-01-12 Thread Jochen Fromm
Subspace communication! Is there anything from Star Trek that has not become a reality? VR Headsets allow Beaming and Holodecks, smartphones are communicators and tricorders, .. This is why I was disappointed by the new Star Trek Discovery series. They show nothing new, only well-known Klingons w

[FRIAM] Awesome! one step closer to startreky inetneret

2018-01-12 Thread Gillian Densmore
https://twitter.com/PhysicsWorld/status/951851732874727424 I only skimmed it. And I will differ to others that understand it better. Looks like it's now possible to basically have magnetic flags shout realy loudly such that other magets can here it. And that leads to a conversation between the tw