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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 22 October 2010 06:48:58PM 0 points [-]

Looks like category theory. There seems to be a bunch of weird theory of everything type stuff there, especially systems theory like this, but also people who appear seriously competent. No idea about these guys though.

Maybe if we look into a mirror and say John Baez's name three times, he'll appear here and say this is crackpottery.

Comment author: nhamann 22 October 2010 07:56:31PM *  0 points [-]

Yes, but its not just category theory, it's partially a philosophical theory for "super-complex systems" as well (from what I understand). But the prereqs to understand this paper are far beyond what I'm at right now, so I really don't know what to say about it other than that a theory as broad as that one should have a lot of evidence for its formulation.