SUO: Re: Ontology, Epistemology, Semiotics
Len,
Notice Arun's comment and the web page:
AM> You will find that this is not a metaphysical claim but
> a well developed theory, with book publications in its support.
http://books.cambridge.org/052163167X.htm
You can go to that web site, read the blurbs and download
the table of contents and first chapter.
LB> sounds a lot like a view-centric theory in which the actor
> interacts based on the information queried, and this action
> changes the state of the queried dataset. Not having the book
> at hand, is that the case?
>
> That doesn't seem to be new, so I must be missing something
> of great importance in the author's work.
Look at that chapter. The author starts with metaphysics, but
he does detailed mathematics, from which he derives real physics.
Any BS artist can spout metaphysical points, but this book
follows it up out with very solid mathematics.
John