[lbo-talk] Freezing liquids and primes...

[Eubulides]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> On May 9, 2012, at 1:50 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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>> Here's one for you Chuck:
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>> http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/05/General-Science-Physics-Freezing-Liquids-Help-To-Predict-Properties-Of-Prime-Numbers/?et_cid=2627963&et_rid=234261489&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.rdmag.com%2fNews%2f2012%2f05%2fGeneral-Science-Physics-Freezing-Liquids-Help-To-Predict-Properties-Of-Prime-Numbers%2f
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> And for all Materialists: explain, please, how comes it that the abstract
> world of *pure* mathematics would correspond with the structure of physical
> reality?
>

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Ho hum.

The article seems to be insinuating that limited pancomputationlism is
a viable hypothesis for exploring questions of ontology.

It is difficult to tell if it is indeed what the author and/or
researchers are getting at.

Interested parties are directed specifically to sections 2.2, 2.5 and 3:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computation-physicalsystems/

Bennett and Landauer's classic paper is available at:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-fundamental-physical-limits-of-computation

Sticking the word *pure* next to mathematics is not informative.