The purpose of this list is to consider the nature of the fabric of reality. How much can our deepest theories of the world -- including quantum physics and the theories of evolution, computation and knowledge -- explain? Do they point the way to "a unified theory of everything", as David Deutsch argues in his book? Is quantum theory literally true, as the many worlds view (and most thinking in the field of quantum cosmology and of quantum computation) assumes? Is the human race "...just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting round a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies", as Stephen Hawking asserts? What are the implications of quantum theory for the understanding of the significance of knowledge? Is certainty possible in mathematics? Where does free will fit in the picture painted by quantum theory? What is the scope of virtual reality? What are the implications of the nature of the fabric of reality for everyday life?
Hi, ... If these events are really random (and not approximations to some deeper determinism), then in the long run everything is random and laws can be laws
Hi, ... So the random event is not really random (it is just from a 1st person pov because 1st person has no access to the full information). ... -- All those
... I am not sure what you mean by "depend on". The have always been stochastic laws. The only novelty is that we no longer feel it necessary to insist that
Hi, In all of this discussion of the notion of Free Will, is there any concideration of at least the appearence of an ability to simultaneously consider the