RE: A Conscious Universe
February 8, 2015 at 9:15 am
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2015 at 9:18 am by bennyboy.)
(February 8, 2015 at 8:34 am)Rhythm Wrote: You keep saying that, I don't know that it's actually true, or at least that it means what you think it does....but. You could conceptualize a photons size by the distance at which you'd start to feel it "pushing" back..a little less than half a fermi - as has already been mentioned.Guess what? When the only way you can physically represent a thing is by an arbitrary conceptualization, then you are probably not talking about a thing at all.
Quote:Of course. That's because photons, their "push back zones," and everything else about them are ideas-- they do not actually need to be represented in a 3D geographical space.
- do you not also envision some sort of computational process to be involved in a universe with information as the fundamental stuff?
Quote:Does it actually matter, in the context of our conversation?Yes, of course it does. If reality as we observe it is a complex interaction of ideas and no more, then we can drop some of the expectations and biases of a physical monism, and have a chance to expand science into new areas. But the good news is we're already doing so.
--update--
A bit of a diversion, but damn.
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v5/86