whowhowho comments on How to think like a quantum monadologist - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 23 October 2009 07:40:37AM 3 points [-]

I also think it's just obvious, once you allow yourself to notice, that the physics we have does not even contain the everyday phenomenon of color, so something has to change.

You feel comfortable with throwing about hilbert spaces, monodologies, d0-branes and tensor products but not comfortable with a physics which represents colour in terms of the interaction between photons of various wavelengths, a few types of receptors in the eyes and a brain. Mind boggling.

About a dozen separate instances of handwaving need to be turned into concrete propositions before it has produced an actual theory.

Once produced, such a theory would be something other than physics and will hopefully be isolated to philosophy departments where it can do minimal harm.

Comment author: whowhowho 31 January 2013 06:31:09PM -1 points [-]

Representing isn't explaining.