Endophysics
Subtitle: the world as an interface
By: Otto E. Rössler ; preface, Peter Weibel ; text selection, Peter Weibel ; editing, Reimara Rössler.
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Singapore; River Edge, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Physics -- Philosophy.; Chaotic behavior in systems.; Quantum theory.; Virtual reality.
Description: What do yin-yang and the Lorenzian butterfly in chaos have in common? The outside perspective. Only by going very far outside - beyond the end of the world - do certain aspects of the world become intelligible. The computer makes it possible today to go after the interface. What does the world look like if you are an internally chaotic part? Is the world just a difference, an interface, a forcing function? Is it possible to identify those features which exist only from the inside? How far does the meta-unmaskability go? Is quantum mechanics a virtual reality? Can the microinterface be manipulated? Such questions are tackled in this book.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.