recap on Rosen

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on
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glen e. p. ropella wrote:
> Even if the parts don't have a common, underlying physics
> (Truth/Reality), as long as they can interact _somehow_ and if they
> interact a lot (highly connected), then a common "physics" may cohere
> after a time so that a forcing structure limits the degrees of freedom.
>  
Assuming there is some forcing structure (ok, better to avoid the word
"physics"),  my point is that it has to be posited, such that it is
clear that the function or set of functions can't just disguise any
number of degrees of freedom.  

For example, a model that specifies a benign looking but undisclosed
function that, upon further inspection, is discovered to be connected to
a giant database of all relevant phenomena...