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Nonrenormalization vs Renormalization 14.3: Can Physics Intuition Be Improved? |
From Osher Doctorow
I pose this as a question here (can physics intuition be improved?)
because I'm not yet ready to propose it as a likely solution, but
rather as a somewhat plausible suggestion.
I've argued in the previous section that Creative Geniuses touch the
"pulse of the Universe", by which I literally mean that their intuition
"senses" the fundamental essence of the Universe even if it makes
mistakes about details (it can even mis-formulate a theory!). I cited
Pierre De Fermat, Sir Isaac Newton, and even Einstein and certainly
Beethoven and Chopin as examples.
But there may be another clue in "touch the 'pulse of the Universe'".
The Scientific Method and even Engineering and Medicine and Mathematics
involves an implicit but very fundamental dedication to
Knowledge/Semantic Information. Syntax can come and go, but
Semantics tends to stay. So in my view the "generalized" Scientific
method applied to all these fields is Nonmaterialist by which I refer
to Knowledge, Ethics, and perhaps Spirit and perhaps some forms of
Radiation.
Yet something is missing from this formulation, which I think is a
Connection With Reality (CWR for short). The faddists in Algebraic
Topology, Algebraic Geometry, generalized Hamiltonians/generalized
Action Principles, Generalized Discreteness have produced "great"
intellectual structures and elaborate logical sequences of arguments,
but much of it "goes nowhere" in the Real world. They are arguably
missing a CWR or a CWR-Orientation. And I think that this can be
learned, although some readers who may be familiar with Psychology may
notice that highly negative Emotional states and even arguably highly
"positive' Emotional states from some viewpoints tend to interfere with
at least the Knowledge aspect of CWR. Tibetan Buddhists and Hindus
tend to value Non-Emotional states or Tranquility, and Indian
Mathematics and Physics are now and have been for a long time some of
the most Creative Genius works. Japan and Taiwan come close at times.
I think that Israel also comes close because the survivors of constant
War arguably become Emotionally numb if not Unemotional unless they go
insane, and so has Italy since shortly after the Fall of Rome and the
U.K.
I'll try to continue this shortly.
Osher Doctorow
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16 Apr 2006 12:11:13 PM |
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From Osher Doctorow
And thereby hangs a curious tale. Why do some nations not have
Creative Genius in mathematics, physics, engineering (I'm changing from
capital to small letters for "variety")? I should rapidly add that to
those who think that this is irrelevant to physics, they can join the
NoSpam.com crowd and spend their lives cleaning wastepaper baskets if
they so choose.
I suspect that it has to do with focusing, or to use an unfashionable
old time word which I still like, TRYING but also TRYING TO PERCEIVE
AND KNOW. There, I've gone back to big letters, but heck, that's
variety :>) Africa and much of Latin America are too hot to try much.
Those who "tried" left Africa in prehistoric times as far as we know.
Parliamentary Democracy started very, very far from Africa - in the
U.K. from the 1200s Magna Carta through the 1600s Acts of Parliament.
Its universities and churches preserved Knowledge even through the Dark
Ages.
So why don't so many people, even in our nations of the USA and Europe
and their descendants, try? I think that it is a "Counter-culture"
called Materialism which is both anti-abstraction and anti-reality and
pro-emotional and pro-surface-but-not-inside and
pro-present-but-anti-future-and-anti-past and anti-logic and
anti-applications and against finding similarities and differences
between/among stimuli and anti-interdisciplinary.
Does the Universe try? I don't know, but I suspect that it does in
some sense.
Osher Doctorow
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16 Apr 2006 12:38:55 PM |
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From Osher Doctorow
I left out "anti-causal", in the sense of WHY things happen or what
"causes" them to happen, and I think that Materialism vs Nonmaterialism
divide strongly on the issue of causal in this sense (not the light
cone sense directly!). Materialism is obsession with power, greed,
sensation, nepotism-friendship ("friendship above Ethics"), violence
not in self-defense. Nonmaterialism is concern with knowledge,
ethics, and arguably event spirit and nonviolence except in
self-defense.
As for how Creative Geniuses develop from Ingenious Imitators, I've
commented on that before in various threads, but my view now is that
marrying a very good psychologist or psychiatrist is one way of
achieving emotional tranquility if you don't misinterpret psychology as
being a license for emotionality. A long history of past physical or
even mental illness (hopefully not institutionalized in the latter
case, but you never know) arguably helps sensitize one to CWR as long
as the illness is not Violence-Oriented. The Violence-Oriented,
though, are quite common in Academia, both Agressive and Passive
Violence. Harvard's firing of its anti-terrorist President by the
majority of the Harvard "community" is passive aggression becoming
active aggression in my opinion. I no longer put Harvard on my list
of the 8 top universities but put West Point there until Harvard throws
out its passive aggressive and active aggressive faculty and students
and administrators and service employees. Why West Point? Well,
military people put their lives on the line and are often least likely
to start wars of aggression since they're the first to go. They don't
join to get rich or even usually to get power (that falls to the
politicians and lawyers and big corporation businessmen and big
government leaders) or sensation or nepotism. Besides, they learn to
listen with their mouths shut before they start mouthing off or
attacking others' ideas on or off the internet. I'd love to teach in
West Point, though I suggest changing their name to West Old Point in
the hope that they come to value older people as much as younger ones.
Osher Doctorow
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