I watched more of the video. It got into quantum field theory and how what we experience emerges from the actions of the quantum field.  But that brings to mind another thing.  We don’t live AT the level of the quantum field; we live at the level of what emerges from it.  We may live because of the quantum field, like the computer (Peter’s favorite illustration) functions at the level of the chips and so forth (I don’t know enough about the quantum field to be able to speak about it like Peter), but we don’t live at that level when we operate the computer.  We just turn it on and start using it. Macro and micro, and I guess then Macro again.  So, this puts me to the place we’ve been at in terms of philosophy: GT may depend a lot on phenomenology but we are not dong philosophy when we meet with people.  We are applying philosophy (perhaps), but we are not doing philosophy. Micro and macro. Husser’s quote “to the things themselves” (i.e. through a reduction of the natural attitude) to me is an attempt to get to the level of the quantum field (analogy).  I think we work with the emergent. So, not reducing the natural attitude but working within it (in maybe a sub-set of it like the professional attitude or the personalistic attitude).


> On Feb 26, 2024, at 12:42 PM, john wymore <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Consider that there maybe no such thing as nothing
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>> On Feb 26, 2024, at 10:35 AM, Philip Brownell <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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>> "Space is nothing and has no properties”. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPVQtvbiS4Y)
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>> Watching a YouTube on space and time.  This was one statement, and it caught my attention because we have asserted that there is no distance between objects and that all are connected in “the field.”  But if the cosmos is expanding and the objects (i.e. galaxies) are moving away at increasing speed, leaving space in between, and space has no properties.  It is nothing.  Does that destroy our assertions that we are all connected? 
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