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Matthew David Segall • God and Eternal Objects
An exciting modern idea is that space emerges out of quantum entanglement, rather than being a substance in its own right, so maybe there’s a sense in which relationalism will triumph in the end.
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
In fact, his act of faith in this factual knowledge was so extreme that he preferred to give up a well-established tenet of common sense: the notion of simultaneity.
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
What justifies the inferences we draw from these patterns? It is certainly not a matter of logical deduction. There is no way of proving from these or from any other observations that the external universe, or multiverse, exists at all, let alone that the electric currents received by our brains stand in any particular relationship to it.
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
The odds of numerous input patterns occurring in the same relation over and over again by sheer coincidence are vanishingly small. A predictable sequence of patterns must be part of a larger object that really exists. So reliable predictability is an ironclad way of knowing that different events in the world are physically tied together.
Sandra Blakeslee • On Intelligence
Is the Standard Model Correct?
William Lane Craig • On Guard
It is we who create the problem, Borges realized, by the very way we imagine the race. We attribute to Achilles and to the tortoise (as we do to ourselves and indeed to all objects) a persistence in time and space. When we slice time and space into the infinitesimal chunks that Achilles and the tortoise have to cross, we simultaneously impose on
... See moreWilliam Egginton • The Rigor of Angels
it isn’t nearly enough to have a boundary surface with an immense number of particle-like constituents. Instead, a curved interior emerges only if quantum entanglement interconnects numerous boundary constituents.
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
It is because the laws of physics support computational universality that human brains can predict and explain the behaviour of very un-human objects like quasars. And it is because of that same universality that mathematicians like Hilbert can build up an intuition of proof, and mistakenly think that it is independent of physics. But it is not
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