This is a paper that I presented at a 2024 conference in honor of author Iain McGilchrist at the Center for Process Studies in San Francisco. It argues that the Western intellectual tradition, despite its many accomplishments, is critically deficient not only in modes of thought naturally associated with the brain's right hemisphere but also … Continue reading The Quantum Master and its Classical Emissary
Month: December 2024
Entropic Force and Gravitation
In this post, I offer a (hopefully) user-friendly conceptual introduction to gravitation as an entropic force, from the perspective of the transactional formulation. This account departs somewhat from traditional presentations of entropic gravity and the holographic principle by insisting that "information" alone is not physically sufficient to define thermodynamic entropy. Entropy must always be defined … Continue reading Entropic Force and Gravitation