Gribbin (1990: 230-1):
If everything that ever interacted in the Big Bang maintains its connection with everything it interacted with, then every particle in every star and galaxy that we can see "knows" about the existence of every other particle. …
Does it seem paradoxical? Richard Feynman summed up the situation succinctly in his Lectures: "The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be'."
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, there is no paradox, and interacting particles do not "know" anything. Particles are instances of physical potential, and their measurable qualities depend on the instantiated qualities of other particles of the same potential.
It is not so much "a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be' ", as a conflict between the epistemology of Galileo and Descartes and an epistemology that holds that all meaning is located within semiotic systems. As the neuroscientist Gerald Edelman pointed out: the world is unlabelled.
It is not so much "a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be' ", as a conflict between the epistemology of Galileo and Descartes and an epistemology that holds that all meaning is located within semiotic systems. As the neuroscientist Gerald Edelman pointed out: the world is unlabelled.
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