[MD] MD Quality, DQ and SQ

[ian glendinning]

David - one point inserted below on this one ...

(Otherwise mostly covered by my latest response to Scott. -
Complaining about me calling things "physical" is the same lingusitic
problem as me objecting to Scott using the word "material". Just
words. Let's agree what we're talking about and choose the words later
- my favourites are "quality" and "nature", but I'm not a betting
man.)

On 12/30/05, David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Ian
>
> I do not entirely object to this approach but care and
> caution is required. My main problem is that much of
> experience/life is never repeated and therefore not easy for
> science to describe and not very useful for science to do so.

[IG] Absolutely. Which is why I continually say that (a pragmatic,
useful) science, called physics or nature, is something much more than
repeatable, predictable, objective testing of hypotheses. I'm nothing
if not consistent. Science needs the MoQ.

> No SQ can be described or identified, there is more disorder
> than order to be experienced. I take the emergence on new forms
> to be characterised as the reduction of many possible actuals to
> just one. For example life on this planet has gone down a carbon
> based route rather than one of many other possibilities.
>
> My other point would be that science has generally been about
> describing the patterns of actual experience, i.e patterns that exist
> in space-time. But quantum theory does seem to require the use
> of patterns of possibles rather than actuals to describe what is able
> to become actual. This opens up vast territories of the possible,
> the imagined, that seem have an influence on what becomes actual,
> that science now needs to explore, and I think calling these physical
> is misleading. Mathematics via imagination and creativity
> is of course crucially involved in this exploration of the
> non-physical possible.
>
> DM
>
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> From: "ian glendinning" <psybertron at gmail.com>
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