[extropy-chat] mathscapes

[Damien Broderick]

At 11:45 AM 9/9/2004 +0200, Serafino wrote:

>Something a little bit more physical, or less epiontic,

An interesting term. Do you mean it in Zurek's sense, where the ontic is 
entangled (so to speak) with the epistemic?

< Surprisingly, it turns out that the usual central problem of the 
interpretation of the state vector – the dual (epistemic and ontic, and 
hence epiontic) role of quantum states which on one hand encode the 
information observers have about the microscopic, but on the other hand are 
the only elements of the theory that can account for the objectively 
existing states of the macroscopic systems – proves to be an advantage: It 
helps eliminate subjectivity of classical definitions, and allows one to 
define and compute probabilities as tools for predicting  outcomes of a 
single experiment. >
(arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0405161)