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Jim_Baggott

The Copernican Principle

“The Copernican Principle. The universe is not organized for our benefit and we are not uniquely privileged observers. Science strives to remove ‘us’ from the centre of the picture, making our existence a natural consequence of reality rather than the reason for it. Empirical reality is therefore something that we have learned to observe with detachment, without passion. Scientists ask fundamental questions about how reality works and seek answers in the evidence from observation and experiment, irrespective of their own personal preferences, prejudices and beliefs.”
  • Source: Baggott, Jim. Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth (p. 23). Pegasus Books. New York, NY
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Yuval_Noah_Harari

Information Reality

“Information is increasingly seen by many philosophers and biologists, and even by some physicists, as the most basic building block of reality, more elementary than matter and energy.”
  • Source: Yuval Noah Harari in the book “Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI”. Published 2024 by Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Page 3. ISBN: 9780593734247 (ebook).
  • Notes: While the “it from bit” position is becoming more acceptable in physics, most physicists still doubt or reject it and believe that matter and energy are the fundamental building blocks of nature, while information is a derived phenomenon.
  • See Also:
    • Nick Bostrom, “Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?,” Philosophical Quarterly 53, no. 211 (2003): 243–55, www.jstor.org/​stable/​3542867.
    • David J. Chalmers, “Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy” (New York: W. W. Norton, 2022).
    • Archibald Wheeler’s influential notion of “it from bit”: John Archibald Wheeler, “Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links,” Proceedings III International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Tokyo, 1989), 354–68;
    • Paul Davies and Niels Henrik Gregersen, eds., “Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics” (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2014);
    • Erik Verlinde, “On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton,” Journal of High Energy Physics 4 (2011): 1–27.
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    • Yuval_Noah_Harari_quotes/Information_Reality
Keywords: Information_quotes Philosopher_quotes Biologist_quotes Physicist_quotes Basic_quotes Build_quotes Block_quotes Reality_quotes Elementary_quotes Matter_quotes Energy_quotes Simulation_quotes Fundamental_quotes

Information Connects

“Information sometimes represents reality, and sometimes doesn’t. But it always connects. This is its fundamental characteristic.”
  • Source: Yuval Noah Harari writing in his book ‘Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI’. Published in 2024 by Random House. Kindle edition. Chapter 1 page 16. ISBN 978-0593734247.
Keywords: Information_quotes Represent_quotes Reality_quotes Connect_quotes Fundamental_quotes Characteristic_quotes

Stephen_Hawking

Fine Tuning

“The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron.... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been finely adjusted to make possible the development of life.”
  • Source: Stephen Hawking in his book “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”. Published by Bantam in 1990. ISBN: 9780553346145.
Keywords: Law_quotes Science_quotes Know_quotes Present_quotes Contain_quotes Fundamental_quotes Number_quotes Size_quotes Electric_quotes Charge_quotes Electron_quotes Ratio_quotes Mass_quotes Proton_quotes Remarkable_quotes Fact_quotes Value_quotes Fine_quotes Adjust_quotes Tune_quotes Possible_quotes Make_quotes Development_quotes Life_quotes Universe_quotes

Sabine_Hossenfelder

Closer Reality

“The foundations of physics give us a closer look at reality, but the closer we look at reality, the more slippery it becomes. Our heavy use of mathematics is a major reason. The more the fundamental descriptions of nature have become divorced from our everyday experience, the more we must rely on mathematical rigor. This reliance has consequences. Using math to describe reality means that the same observations can be equivalently explained in many different ways. That’s just because there are many sets of mathematical axioms that will give the exact same predictions for all available data. Thus, if you want to assign 'reality' to one of your explanations, you won’t know which.”
  • Source: Hossenfelder, Sabine. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions (p. 74). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Lawrence_M_Krauss

Think the Unthinkable

“Science has taught us to think the unthinkable. Because when nature is the guide—rather than a priori prejudices, hopes, fears or desires — we are forced out of our comfort zone. One by one, pillars of classical logic have fallen by the wayside as science progressed in the 20th century, from Einstein's realization that measurements of space and time were not absolute but observer-dependent, to quantum mechanics, which not only put fundamental limits on what we can empirically know but also demonstrated that elementary particles and the atoms they form are doing a million seemingly impossible things at once.”
  • Source: Lawrence M. Krauss, In op-ed, 'A Universe Without Purpose', Los Angeles Times (1 Apr 2012).
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David_E_Nye

Farm Production Too Much

“The fundamental problem was that farmers produced too much, driving down prices. New technologies, such as tractors, trucks, harvesting equipment, and electrical machinery, made it possible for each farmer to raise more.”
  • Source: A book. Written by David E. Nye. Entitled 'Narratives and Spaces'. Published in 1997 by Univerity of Exeter Press, Exeter, UK. Hardback ISBN 0-85989-555-6. Paperback ISBN 0-85989-556-4. Chapter 3, page 45.
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Tim_Palmer

Qubit Information Capacity

“Is there a fundamental reason why quantum computers cannot factor large integers used for encryption today? We introduce a concept called Qubit Information Capacity which arises if the continuum nature of quantum mechanics’ state space is an approximation for something inherently discrete. We argue that the physical reason for such discreteness is gravity. Based on this, we predict that quantum computers will never be able to break realistic RSA-encrypted messages.”
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Roger_Penrose

Mind

“My point of view entails that it is our present lack of understanding of the fundamental laws of physics that prevents us from coming to grips with the concept of ‘mind’ in physical or logical terms.”
  • Source: Written by Roger Penrose in the book “The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics” published in 1989 by Oxford University Press, Oxford, England. Kindle Edition; Page 4. ISBN: 978-0-19-286198-6.
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Alan_Perlis

Fit and Try

“Fundamentally, the procedure you mention, which is ‘fit-and-try’, will work very well with three or four people. If you have a hundred people the ‘fit-and-try’ process diverges because of lack of control.”
Keywords: Fundamental_quotes Mention_quotes Process_quotes Procedure_quotes Fit_quotes Try_quotes Work_quotes People_quotes Software_quotes Software_Engineering_quotes Development_quotes

Albert_Speer

Incalculable Consequences

“How incalculable the consequences were! The superficiality of my attitude made the fundamental error all the worse.”
  • Source: From the book "Inside the Third Reich" by Albert Speer, published 1970 by Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-0-684-82949-4. Chapter 2, page 20.
Keywords: Incalculable_quotes Calculation_quotes Consequence_quotes Superficial_quotes Attitude_quotes Fundamental_quotes Error_quotes Worse_quotes

Alfred_Wegener

Continental Drift

“The first concept of continental drift first came to me as far back as 1910, when considering the map of the world, under the direct impression produced by the congruence of the coast lines on either side of the Atlantic. At first I did not pay attention to the ideas because I regarded it as improbable. In the fall of 1911, I came quite accidentally upon a synoptic report in which I learned for the first time of palaeontological evidence for a former land bridge between Brazil and Africa. As a result I undertook a cursory examination of relevant research in the fields of geology and palaeontology, and this provided immediately such weighty corroboration that a conviction of the fundamental soundness of the idea took root in my mind.”
  • Source: Alfred L. Wegener, In The Origins of Continents and Oceans (4th ed. 1929), trans. John Biram (1966), 1.
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Gerald_Weinberg

Fisher's Fundamental Theorem

“Fisher's Fundamental Theorem states — in terms appropriate to the present context — that the better adapted a system is to a particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new environments. By stretching our imagination a bit, we can see how this might apply to computer programs as well.”
  • Source: Chapter 2. Weinberg, G. M. (2011). The Psychology of Computer Programming (Silver anniversary edition) | 1971. Weinberg & Weinberg.
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Stephen_Wolfram

Computational Irreducibility

“I’ve increasingly come to view the whole fundamental story of science as being about the interplay between computational irreducibility and computational reducibility. The computational nature of things inevitably leads to computational irreducibility. But there are slices of computational reducibility that inevitably exist on top of this irreducibility that are what make it possible for us — as computationally bounded entities — to identify meaningful scientific laws and to do science.”
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Shoshana_Zuboff

Frederick Taylor

“The man who emerged as the chief symbol of the rational approach to management was Frederick Taylor. Though much has been written on Taylor and the philosophy and methods of scientific management, it is worth highlighting a few central themes for three reasons. First, Taylorism explicitly treats the worker's body in its two dimensions -- as a source of effort and as a source of skill. Second, workers' responses to Taylorism reveal the ambivalence that this dual role of the body can create, as it did among the bleach plant operators or the nineteenth-century glassmakers. Third, the logic that motivated the early purveyors and adapters of scientific management has continued to dominate the course of automation in the twentieth-century workplace. As will be argued later, it is a logic that must undergo a fundamental reevaluation as information technology is widely adapted to productive activity.”
  • Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 41. ISBN:0465032125.
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Fundamental Scientific Management Reevaluation

“The logic that motivated the early purveyors and adapters of scientific management has continued to dominate the course of automation... It is a logic that must undergo a fundamental reevaluation as information technology is widely adapted to productive activity.”
  • Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 42. ISBN:0465032125.
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Authority is the Spiritual Dimension of Power

“Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of the hierarchical order and so provides for the unity of imperative control. Authority requires collective participation in a system of meaning that extends beyond the immediate context, beyond those who command or obey, and reaches into the domain of transcendent values. Members of a hierarchical order are linked together through allegiance to or faith in a common belief system, and every action that ensures the smooth exercise of imperative control refers back to, and expresses the bonds one has with, some fundamental source of meaning.”
  • Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 222. ISBN:0465032125.
Keywords: Authority_quotes Spirituality_quotes Power_quotes Faith_quotes Belief_quotes Meaning_quotes System_quotes Hierarchy_quotes Order_quotes Unity_quotes Cooperation_quotes Participation_quotes Allegiance_quotes Tribalism_quotes Transcendent_quotes Values_quotes Bonding_quotes Religion_quotes Dimension_quotes Depend_quotes Necessity_quotes Provide_quotes Imperative_quotes Control_quotes Collective_quotes Immediate_quotes Context_quotes Command_quotes Obey_quotes Reach_quotes Domain_quotes Member_quotes Link_quotes Together_quotes Common_quotes Action_quotes Ensure_quotes Smooth_quotes Exercise_quotes Express_quotes Bond_quotes Fundamental_quotes Source_quotes
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