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| Laws: A. Laws are rules created and enforced by governments to regulate behavior, protect people's rights, and promote order and justice in society. - B. Laws of nature are fundamental principles that describe how the universe works. They are universal and unchanging. - C. The status of laws in the individual sciences is controversial, since they may only describe regularities. See also Natural laws, Regularities, Principles._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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David Deutsch on Laws - Dictionary of Arguments
I 263ff Laws of Nature: the laws of nature to which the counterfactual implicitly refers are the laws that are actually obeyed in other universes, namely the laws of quantum theory! (Other authors: there are probably universes in which certain laws of nature are suspended). >Natural laws, >Counterfactuals, >Quantum mechanics. I 300 Simulation/Laws of Nature: in virtual reality you can travel at the speed of light, or even build a perpetuum mobile. No matter how reasonable considerations concerning virtual reality can prove, a certain process is allowed by laws of nature (even though one can prove that it is not allowed). >Simulation. If we had come to an opposite conclusion, based on the Turing principle, time travel would be physically impossible. >Time travel._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Deutsch I D. Deutsch Fabric of Reality, Harmondsworth 1997 German Edition: Die Physik der Welterkenntnis München 2000 |
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