To: RightWhale; betty boop
We lifeforms consume entropy, eat entropy, producing individuation, organization out of order. Order is statistical. Exaclty, RW. We who are [already] life forms do this. You might say it defines us.
539 posted on
08/21/2003 3:39:46 PM PDT by
unspun
("Do everything in love." | No I don't look anything like her but I do like to hear "Unspun w/ AnnaZ")
To: unspun; RightWhale; Alamo-Girl; Phaedrus; Doctor Stochastic; Right Wing Professor; Physicist; ...
Order is statistical. Order is statistical? Intrinsically??? Or is it that quantum epistemological technique requires us to "sample" nature through the mathematical sciences, preeminently statistics? But what is "really real": Nature -- the universe -- or statistics? Or is the "tool" we use -- statistics -- everything there is, or at least everything that "matters?"
IMHO, you absolutely need this epistemology. But the "complementary" of epistemology -- it seems to me -- is ontology.
542 posted on
08/21/2003 4:52:28 PM PDT by
betty boop
(Bohr is brutally realistic in epistemological terms. -- Kafatos & Nadeau)
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