What do we mean by reality?
Existence, appearance, experience and explanation: a practical introduction to the questions that connect this collection.
REALITY & TIME · EXISTENCE AND THE WORLD WE EXPERIENCE
Planned article
Records persistence and prediction
Connect retained distinctions with object identity and autonomous prediction in the existing finite models.
This topic is part of the planned collection. Its full article is still to come. The following existing resources offer a starting point.
Explore existing reading
Read the first essays
Appearance and what appears
Use two viewpoints to distinguish appearances that agree, and connect observable comparisons with the reconstruction of physical reality.
Change and what persists
Follow an oscillator through constant energy, changing phase and damping to distinguish preserved quantities, states and histories.
Objects events and processes
Trace a classical message between registers to compare object, event and process descriptions and identify what a complete mechanism must specify.
Related planned topics
- Completion and the availability of an observation — planned
- Spatial readout and its assumptions — planned
- Discrete and continuous mathematical models — full essay
- Predict an interference pattern — planned