Writing the Observer back into the Equation
Abstract
The speaker advances a fourth law of logic which contains the negation of each of Aristotle's three laws of logic. Thus the four-law system is closed. It contains and resolves all present paradoxes since a paradox by definition is a violation of one or more of the first three laws, and hence is a statement of, or included in, the fourth law. The four-law logic encloses everything which can be thought - physics and metaphysics - in one logical system. By the author's perceptron approach to perception, the fourth law (identify of opposites on their common boundary) can at last be comprehended. The fourth law resolves, e.g., the two-slit experiment, the Hieronymus device, the mind/body problem, the nature of mind, the nature of nothing, and the difficulties in the logical basis of probability. Using the fourth law and the author's perceptron approach to perception, a fundamental particle becomes an Einsteinian closure of the universe, in the manner of Einstein's spherical model of the cosmos. Based on a time-clustered set of orthogonal 4-spaces selected from Everett's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, a model of both mind and matter can be constructed. Einstein's postulates of special relativity are derived. A new defining equation for mass is given.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 05, 1976
- Accession Number
- ADA027867
Entities
People
- Thomas E. Bearden
Organizations
- System Development Corporation