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Re:The Principle of Triviality by big-green-man on Sunday November 24, 2024 @03:48AM (#42226792)
It appears to be the case. The world is a very complex place, but fundamentally every detail of it is emergent from a small body of rules and mechanisms, which we call quantum mechanics. The love you feel derives from that ultimately.

It is fractal in nature. So it would follow that any correct set of ideas derive from some principles, and if the principles have a lot of corner cases that require caveats then you're missing something and you don't have the principles hammered down after all.

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Re:The Principle of Triviality by philipswood on Sunday November 24, 2024 @05:07AM (#42227065)
I look around using a torch and everything I look at, everything I can see, is lit.

So the natural and correct conclusion is that all objects are lit, right?

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Re:The Principle of Triviality by big-green-man on Sunday November 24, 2024 @01:26PM (#42229433)
That's a bad analogy. You don't have to act on the world viewing it through a paradigm.
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Re:The Principle of Triviality by philipswood on Sunday November 24, 2024 @05:08AM (#42227072)
We KNOW that quantum mechanics is incomplete. Everything is definitely not described by quantum mechanics.
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Re:The Principle of Triviality by big-green-man on Sunday November 24, 2024 @01:26PM (#42229431)
Not by the current standard model, no, but there is a fundamental model, that we know a thing or two about at least, that describes the complexity we see happening around us.
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