[time 110] RE: [time 76] Re: [time 72] RE: [time 69] Spacetime & consciousness


Hitoshi Kitada (hitoshi@kitada.com)
Sat, 3 Apr 1999 19:10:44 +0900


Dear Ben,

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Goertzel <ben@goertzel.org>
To: Hitoshi Kitada <hitoshi@kitada.com>; Time List <time@kitada.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 9:18 AM
Subject: [time 76] Re: [time 72] RE: [time 69] Spacetime & consciousness

>
>>>Hitoshi, your "philosophical" paper does not really address this
>>>philosophical issue.
>>>I'm not interested in philosophical verbiage so much as in the logic of
>>>this relationship.
>>
>>
>>I am too. Just I could not find a proper logical structure that suits the
>>situation which I want to describe.
>
>
>It seems to me that what needs to be done to place the theory on a firm
>logical foundation
>is to
>
>1) establish a general formalism, conceptual and mathematical, for the logic
>of wholes versus
> the logic of parts
>
>2) derive QM from the logic of parts and GR from the logic of wholes,
>introducing additional
> mathematical assumptions as necessary
>
>I have some more ideas about this, which I will give a little later when I
>have more time.

I look forward to your having time and explaining your ideas.

>
>ben
>
>

Best wishes,
Hitoshi



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