Hi Manuel,

Thanks for the very kind reply! I think I've replied more comprehensively to it on my thread. I'm just trying to check in with all the other threads before the deadline.

Best wishes,

Antony

Thank you Angel for your detailed review and compliments. Best of luck to you in the competition.

Regards,

Manuel

Thank you Manuel,

I appreciate the thoughtful comments left on my essay page. I am embarrassed to say that yours is one of the first essay I downloaded, but I have not read it through yet. I'll make sure I do so, before midnight.

I'll comment if there is time tonight, or tomorrow.

Jonathan

    Thanks Jonathan,

    That works for me. Let's hope this ends on a positive note this evening.

    Best wishes,

    Manuel

    Your essay resonates with me, Manuel.

    I'll have more to say, but for now I'll tell you it made me cry at the end, because it reminded me of the final days of my Mom - who had Alzheimer's and died earlier this year. Slowly but surely, her ability to choose was ebbing away, and there were the little things like being able to pick up a spoon and put food into her own mouth - that I imagine made life worth living - but was taken away by my Dad so she would get enough to eat. I knew that it wouldn't be long, before she checked out, at that point.

    I'd start talking about how we should not be spoon feeding our children with pre-digested knowledge, and instead must enlist their freedom to choose, but I think you know that. Much more to say on the value of play for Education, when there is time.

    Have Fun!

    Jonathan

    Hi Manuel,

    > M: The construct of the experiment was not geared toward obtaining statistical outcomes/effects. Therefore sample size is irrelevant especially when you consider that selections of potentials is universal and absolute to physical existence. Hence no selection, no existence, i.e. the Final Selection Experiment.

    What role did the Tempt Destiny experiment play in developing your theory? Was it devised as a test of the theory or for some other purpose?

    > M: If one assumes finite things exist without the existence of infinite things, then how would you know what is finite?

    You might know something is finite by being able to count it (i.e. put it into one-to-one correspondence with a finite number) or measure it (i.e. bound it with finite sizes) or determine that it was contained in another finite object.

    > In addition, you would now longer have a dichotomy.

    The conceptual dichotomy, and the two terms, would still exist, as abstractions. But neither term (as abstract terms) exist in the physical world. However, examples of one term (the finite) could exist without examples of the other (the infinite) existing.

    Hugh

    Angel,

    I am glad to see that your much deserved essay made it to the finals (top 40). Now it will be left up to the panel of judges to do their thing.

    I would love to see how your approach could be applied to the findings. I say this in all humility, that the physicist that can predict first cause events as presented in my essay will most likely win a Nobel prize for doing so. Possible application methods will be the topic of my next peer-reviewed paper.

    Best wishes,

    Manuel

    May destiny be tempted to treat you well in the finals, Manuel.

    Best of Luck,

    Jonathan

    Jonathan,

    I am glad to see you made it into the finals and also wish you well in what lies ahead. Its all up to the judges form here on out.

    May the force be with you...

    ;-)

    Dear Manuel,

    With all my heart I congratulate you with the in third place in the first phase of the V International FQXi Essay Contest 2013!

    I wish you continued success in your research!

    I wish you new ideas for the good of all mankind!

    Thanks for the nice comment and appreciation of my ideas!

    I am very glad to have met you!

    Thank FQXi!

    Good summer holiday!

    With great respect,

    Vladimir

      Thank you Vladimir for the kinds words of support. I wish you the same with your research and have a great rest of the summer as well.

      Respectfully yours,

      Manuel

      Manuel,

      Clearly written essay. The diagrams were interesting, but I did not find them helpful. You define "existence" based on interaction. Even in Quantum mechanics, interactions are not just binary. Momentum, mass-energy is conserved and particle can scatter in an infinite range of angles.

      We know of existence due to interactions, but there is no proof that something does not exist without interactions.

      Thank you for the essay, congratulations on third place,

      Jeff

        Thank you Jeff. I enjoyed your essay as well.

        Regarding your existence comment, I do not define 'existence' based on interactions. We obtain 'existence' when we obtain a selection; the effects of which we call interactions. Thus, no selection = no interaction = no existence.

        I hope that helps.

        Best wishes,

        Manuel

        Manuel,

        Can you make a selection without an interaction? If two states exist and you do not declare a state by an interaction (such as an observation) then would not both states still exist?

        Thank you for your response,

        Jeff

          "Can you make a selection without an interaction?"

          An interaction describes the 'effect' of a selection, not the other way around. Same holds true for observation or measurement both of which are 'effects' of selection events.

          Manuel

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