Before the Zero

[János Széky]

I've always wanted to ask if there was any serious study of a possible :)
Pynchon-Hintikka connection. That is, something based on the Finnish
logician's (version of the) theory of possible worlds. It's very technical
(e.g.
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.wooldridge/pubs/ker95/subsection3_2_3.html)
but I've read some essays on narratology in general that could well be
apllied.

2016-04-04 10:03 GMT+02:00 Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>:

>
> A related term from political theory is "*pluriverse*". In 'The Concept
> of the Political', Carl Schmitt develops the thought that the political
> always requires a clear distinction between friend and enemy. In contrast
> to other societal domains, like the economic or the beautiful, the
> political is, according to Schmitt, unavoidably the most essential to
> identity in any social context. On the level of states - and here it's
> important to know that for C.S. the concept of the state is secondary to
> that of the political ("Der Begriff des Staates setzt den Begriff des
> Politischen voraus") - this means that, because of the necessary
> distinction between friend and enemy, there can never ever be one sole and
> unified world-state. (If global peace & paradise break out tomorrow morning
> - which is, perhaps, not impossible but highly improbable - , it will have
> nothing to do with states and/or the political.) And thus the political
> world is not an universe yet a pluriverse.
>
> "Die politische Welt ist ein Pluriversum, kein Universum."
>
> Carl Schmitt: Der Begriff des Politischen, 1932, 7. Auflage, p. 54, Berlin
> 2002: Duncker & Humblot.
>
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pluriverse
>
>
>
> On 02.04.2016 05:36, David Morris wrote:
>
>
> http://www.sanskritimagazine.com/indian-religions/buddhism/origin-of-world-and-multiverse/
>
> Numerous Bhuddist sutras posit infinite parallel universes with infinite
> other Bhuddhas. See Indra's net, a spiders web holding drops of water at
> each intersection. Each intersection holding the image of all other
> droplets and their reflected images. It it an image of the infinity mirror
> times infinity.
>
> David Morris
>
>
>
> On Friday, April 1, 2016, Doug Millison < <dougmillison at gmail.com>
> dougmillison at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Enjoying the group read so far.  I am especially curious to hear what
>> readers think about ways that GR may reflect the theorizing that has
>> developed into the ongoing discussion about the multiverse.
>>
>> "All fiction that does not violate the laws of physics is fact."
>> -David Deutsch, THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY in the chapter called "The
>> Multiverse" (2011)
>>
>> From the same chapter: "....Whenever we observe anything - a scientific
>> instrument or a galaxy or a human being - what we are actually seeing is a
>> single-universe perspective on a larger object that extends some way into
>> other universes. In some of those universes, the object looks exactly as it
>> does to us, in others it looks different, or is absent altogether. What an
>> observer sees as a married couple is actually just a sliver of a vast
>> entity that includes many fungible instances of a couple, together with
>> other instances of them who are divorced, and others who have never
>> married...."
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse
>> ....The multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of finite
>> and infinite possibleuniverses, including the universe in which we live.
>> Together, these universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of
>> space, time, matter, energy, and the physical lawsand constants that
>> describe them.
>> The various universes within the multiverse are called "parallel
>> universes", "other universes" or "alternate universes."....
>>
>>
>
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