Re: Ontology and Physics
Rob,
There is no conflict whatever between those goals:
> I know you want a collection of low-level microtheories
> John. And you must know I want a different perspective
> on the problem, an emergent perspective.
First of all, engineers and scientists have been using
mathematical theories for centuries. And they work fine.
All I'm saying is that there's a good reason why they work:
they are good approximations to important aspects of the
world for important applications.
Second, emergent phenomena are also described by theories.
Whatever new theories are discovered, there is one fact
that is guaranteed to be true: they will all be in that
infinite lattice of all possible theories.
Remember that it's infinite. And it has all possible
combinations. Anything that can ever be discovered or
ever will be discovered is already there.
John