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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...ce of all acquired characteristics as the sole vehicle of evolution) and Evolution Theory postulate that function determines form. Natural selectio... ...ck. When water waves hit rocks and retreat, they communicate to the ocean at large information about the obstacles they have encountered (their sha... ...obstacles they have encountered (their shape, size, texture, location, etc.). This information modifies the form and angle of attack (among other p... ...m is efficiently conveyed to all other divisions. T E C H NICAL NOT E - Complexity Theory and Ambiguity or Vagueness A Glossary of the terms used ... ...ecause we cannot predict future "borderline cases". It would seem that a complexity theory formalism can accurately describe both ambiguity and vagu... ... derived from a-priori structures embedded in the human mind. 2. It provides high information density, akin to stenography. Just a few symbols arr... ...ates")? Indeed, pointer States are reminiscent of the "strange attractors" of chaos theory! Most measurements are indirect - they tally the effects ... ...a-priori "awareness" of how it fits into an ever more ordered Universe how is the information transferred from the Universe to the entangled quant... ...ntangled quantum system and measurement system at the moment of measurement? Such information must be communicated superluminally (at a speed grea...

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