(September 23, 2015 at 4:19 am)Captain Scarlet Wrote: But strip materialism back to its bare metal and it proposes that the world is made of stuff. I see no reason why a world of fields is not stuff. Fields:
- are not formless (you continue to represent that view). Fields have values, eg value x, in spacetime vector y.
- equations govern them and their time evolution and these are deterministic
- really exist
You have responded to my insistence that particles are describable not as things but as ideas by enumerating the mathematical ideas by which they are described.
If you want to say that a particle (or a field) isn't formless then fine; show me what form a photon (for example) has.
Are you sure they only exist? I think you mean to say, "They really, really exist ya gotta believe me, cuz everyone knows it's true."
