Constructor Theory Q's
"hibbsa" <[email protected]>
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Hi DD, hope you're progressing well with your theory. Actually I had a couple of questions for whenever you next pop your head in. 2. In your recent Essays on CT, something that repeatedly came up in various contexts was this idea of 'fruitfulness'. I was wondering...what extent is fruitfulness or something like it, a component of a 'good' explanation? Or...what extent do you think it should be? Should it be for science but not philosophy, neither or both? 2. As I understand it CT...in a given iteration...will produce a set of possible/impossible transformations from information provided to it by subsidary theories (i.e. speed of light). This information would contribute to knowledge and discovery in various ways, possibly resulting in discovery of new laws, new principles and so on, which would increasingly feed back into subsidiary laws, presumably altering them, unifying them, even replacing them. Now..I can see the potential in this, but what I also see is that the arranagement of CT and subsidiary theories are too 'open' to be able to resolve issues like, say, avoiding circularity (among many other items). Therefore, you'll presumably be seeking to formalize into methodological rules the management/elimination of such potential pitfalls. This would be particularly the case if you see a longer term objective in terms of automation/A.I. which on the face of it, does look like a major possibility arising from the way you have set up the idea. OK...so to my question. Firstly...if what I've said above is dramatically wrong, then I guess you won't be able to answer the question because it won't make any sense. If so apologies for that. On the other hand, if you do recognize some of this from your idea....my question is......about your algebra. Do you think your algebra will have to be different from what we normally think of it, in that it would have to natively embody that methodological behaviour within itself?