Christian Airikka (@stuckonaladder.bsky.social)

@stuckonaladder.bsky.social

"Flat-footed functionalism in the face of T-duality" - the standard Ramsey-Carnap-Lewis method collapses spacetime emergence from T-duality. Is the deflationary account viable? #philsky #philsci link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comFlat-footed functionalism in the face of T-duality - European Journal for Philosophy of ScienceThe goal of this paper is to examine the viability of Lewis-style spacetime functionalism in the presence of string theory duals. This task is carried out in three steps. First, I discuss Lewisian fun...

Christian Airikka

@stuckonaladder.bsky.social

4 Aug

My only explanation for the current trajectory of society is this: Leibniz wrote that the actual world is the best of all possible worlds, whereupon mankind collectively decided to prove him wrong by constructing the reductio ad absurdum.