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[ineffabelle]

So the plenary theory of the universe, is in a sense, the opposite(but has the same implications) of merelogical nihilism...

It's not that the universe is made of uncollectable points, but that it is an indivisible plenum. Our isolation of "things" is a lazy shortcut.

For the sake of talking about one segment of the pattern, it is permissible to speak of things, as long as we remember that this is a convenient gloss, that there really are no things at all, just one thing.

That said, I don't quite believe in plenarism either. I think the information grid model subsumes both the merelogical and plenary views of the universe.

I've posted this to make a certain point (and my point isn't really contained inside the words I've posted, though they are all my own). It's not really an important post at all, but it is.

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[regohemia.livejournal.com]

Information grid model?

And hear, hear to the part I understood. It had a truthiness to it.

-Me

[ineffabelle]

The information grid model posits that everything in the universe can be viewed as information. In some sense, "matter" or "energy" would just be different ways of packaging this information. In this model, there is no fundamental substrate per se, it's all patterns.
Some see this information as digital, which there is some support for in quantum theory, and some see it as analog.
That determines whether set theory or number theory is more fundamental in analyzing this information.