Related to Why Noam Chomsky was “Not a Postmodernist”

 Brian Barbour:“This decline has gone hand-in-glove with the rise of, first, Theory, and then, slightly later, various types of politicized approaches that together define the way literature is studied in graduate school and taught to undergraduates. This “turn to Theory” has had ruinous consequences. Each of these approaches is anti-humanist (and proudly so) and none has any patience with the imaginative exploration of the individual moral life that great literature provides. This is not the place to rehearse the sad story of the displacement of a sense of wonder by a hermeneutics of suspicion, but at bottom all the regnant approaches graduate students are permitted are both ahistorical and broadly Cartesian (in that they start with ideas) and then either force the literature to fit the ideas or use the literature to exemplify some favored social pathology.”

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2023/12/reaching-silence-brian-barbour.html

‘Spooky action at a distance’ may be an underlying mathematical reality enforcing its rules.

 On what Einstein called “spooky” (spukhaft) action at a distance:

I read an article(1) which, if I understood it, said it was just about mathematics. If x1 plus x2 = 0, then if x1 is1, then x2 would have to be -1. And vice versa.

If the relationship between two particles is that one must have positive spin and one must have negative spin, then changing one from positive spin to negative spin requires that the other particle have positive spin.

It’s not spukhaft “action”. No information has been transmitted. It is solely that the underlying mathematical order of the universe has been preserved.

This does suggest that the implicate order is prior to the observed order. What we call distance is an emergent effect of an underlying reality, not something having reality in it itself.

And since distance is a primary factor in the speed-of-light limitation, a greater understanding of reality’s underlying mathematical essence might eliminate the FTL barrier. - /* 2/17/2023 */

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(1) From https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-entanglement-isnt-all-that-spooky-after-all1/

Chris Ferrie: “Intuiting the solution requires some familiarity with linear algebra, so I won’t detail it here. But it is a fact that the quantum information they share requires correlations, which means it is entangled. This appears spooky to the investigators because they only reason with classical information. But it’s not spooky. In any theory of information, correlations are ubiquitous. Through the lens of quantum information, then, entanglement is not strange or rare, but rather expected. The information perspective beautifully illustrates the core problem with demanding a classical description of quantum phenomena: it’s the wrong language.”