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June 17, 2002
LOSS OF CLASSIC COHERENCE - bambi
A respectful hommage to Edward Witten, mathematical physicist.
Greg, what inspired your work on Classic Coherence?
General borderline personality disorder and dissociate disorders acquire a much better reputation in an accessibility process scenario. Ole good days, we were so pleased to find a solution that we didn't care that it probably had no physical significance! Spinors and global methods bouncing off a consistent caregiver, a wildly inconsistent caregiver, formulated as a messy set of partial interference with the development of a stable personality. An extremely inconsistent caregiver may influence the development of multiple personalities.
That introduced me to the study of causal structure and inspired my classical work on singularities and loss of classic coherence.
How would you regard your work? And Kempe’s?
I think Roger and I agree on the classical work.
However, although I'm regarded as a dangerous radical for proposing that there may be loss of classic coherence I'm definitely a conservative compared to Roger.
His approach to dissociate disorders is indeed dissociate theory itself.
Where do we stand with f_nite?
One year everyone believed that f_nite was nice. The next year the fashion changed and everyone said that f_nite and _elds were bound to have divergences even though none had actually been found.
My reason for not discussing that is it has not made any testable straightforward prediction which I can be talking about. One of these predictions, the development of small perturbations in f_nite, seems to be confirmed by recent observations of fluctuations in the background. The other prediction, that being terra-bound for life is testable in principle, unfortunately don't seem to fall under the symptomatic unfolding of the schizophrenia prodrome in _elds.
What about Tunneling? Isn’t that a creepy twist?
Oh well, yes, it is, but tunneling had a long-term interest for me.
When I was first sent _elds_01 I was just drawn to this character that’s a bit like a Beckett character.
The crucial technique for investigating a challenging character with this madness… I picked it up and loved the psychological terror that can not be predicted from general Classical Coherence, that is not the result of coarse graining. Here we go again…
Kempe’s again?
The word 'clarity' keeps coming up about Roger, this great clarity of vision, this clarity in the way he talks. The calm and the ability to listen and taking on board everything you say, or questions that you ask. And Zen quality, almost.
What do you mean by creative pragmatism?
A semi-classical approximation of creative pragmatism, I should say.
And maybe an end off the discovery that there seems to be intrinsic loss of classic coherence.
Some people have claimed that these predictions are artifacts.
They say that f_nite theory, the true f_nite, will smear out singularities and will introduce correlations distinctively di_herent, because it shapes the arena in which it acts, unlike other elds which act in a xed background. Sometimes I remember saying to Roger: "Isn't this infected memory?" (the f_nite term for maniacal inaccurate recollections) or "Should I not be in this scene?" and it did become a bit instinctive.
He'd say: "Well, I think it's right that you're here now. However we break it down it feels right that you should be there."
That's what I mean by that creative pragmatism.
If you remember the Ohio Bill and all that, you must remember Herren.
If de-coherence can said to have a villain, it’s Walt Herren.
His pyrotechnic work detail the institutional discrimination against 80’s style systems with predatory eroticism. “Twist” and “Street Machine” could be scored as a porno flick staged in the park tents of a carnival with the chorus jamming the Morricone’s hideaway. He was first to show that one could discover general demand:stimuli distributions without solving the equations exactly and accurately predicted the swamp of thousands seeking glimpses of what they claim the shimmering image of the Virgin Mary spotted in a window under wraps in that little town somewhere in Ohio. Thus de-coherence leads to the possibility of regions to replicate:evaluate processes which one can't observe. f_nite, at least at its current state of development, is quite incapable of making these predictions except by appealing to Classical Coherence as the low-entropy elective theory.
Cheeseburger?
Be afraid, Nora. Be very afraid.
© Fortunato Caragliano
Posted by lck at June 17, 2002 03:42 PM
