Robert Adam Rosenwald
Robert Adam Rosenwald is a person on Facebook who evidently is in the practice of PM'ing scholars to answer his questions and otherwise do his thinking for him. Herewith is the evidence for that.
Conversation started March 18
Hi there!! Thanks for accepting my friend request. I enjoy reading your comments. and I am impressed by your education. so you are a scientist? what is systems theory?
I'll have to respond later this afternoon. I have my hat and coat on, and am headed out the door for a luncheon gathering.
No problem. Bye!!
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For thousands of years, monarchs, politicians, and organizational managers have sought to construct the ideal set of rules so as to achieve an orderly, stable, well-regulated system. This notion is subsumed under the popular meme, Law and Order.
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Hey Barry. I don't understand what computational complexity theory is. How does understanding the limitations of a computer help us understand mathematics or complexity.
Have you read either "Godel Escher Bach" or "The Mind's I" (Hofstadter and Dennett).
I haven't. I've heard of the book Godel Escher Bach. but I thought it was more philosophy, or non-specialist.
It delves into many of the questions that intrigue and fascinate you, and it's a terrific (and fun) book to read. I highly recommend it to you.
Thanks!!
Here is a piece of my own writing that was inspired from reading GEB.
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The question I was pondering is, in doing physics how do we know we are capturing all of the complexity of nature, and do regularities or laws allow complexity. And I came across computational complexity theory. It is beyond me, I'm starting by reading about the basics like algorithms.
We know for an absolute fact that we are not only NOT capturing all the subtleties and complexity of nature, but that doing so is demonstrably beyond our power.
Complexity Theory seeks to understand how to do the best we can with complex systems, given that the best we can do is far from some ideal perfect job that we might have once dreamed of doing.
Algorithms are sometimes powerful enough to give guaranteed correct answers to selected problems in a reasonable amount of time. There are cases where 1) the rate of convergence to the desired solution is so slow we'll never get there within the age of the universe, 2) we can't even tell if the algorithm will ever finish at all, 3) no precise algorithm can even be constructed, so that we have to rely on heuristic methods that might or might not work at all.
thank you so much.
Some systems might be so complex that, for all intents and purposes, the dynamics of the system are mathematically chaotic.
I realize that I have to master the basics before I can get to what say Alan Turing accomplished. for example, I'm wondering how mathematics defines the word "problem" (is it simply a solution to some equation) what makes for an interesting problem for a mathematician (and what makes for an interesting theorem), and what sorts of problems can a computer solve for us. this is just a guess, but is a computer not intelligent enough to prove theorems, but rather only do repeated calculations within a finite amount of time? i don't know lol
Interesting problems are intriguing, puzzling, and fascinating.
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Hey Barry. In computational complexity theory, how do we know that complexity is mathematical in nature?
Most scientific models are mathematical models. So right away you have a handle on how complex the mathematical models are.
just guessing, but Is it also because all problems can ultimately be boiled down to mathematics? Because mathematics is a tool?
Many can, but some cannot. A lot of problems in metaphysics might not be amenable to classical mathematics.
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Hey Barry, thanks for answering my questions, I really appreciate it. So is emergence a property at different scales of nature? And must each layer of nature be understood on its own terms with its own concepts? Also, I don't fully understand this quotation by Peter Corning- "Rules, or laws, have no causal efficacy; they do not in fact “generate” anything. They serve merely to describe regularities and consistent relationships in nature. These patterns may be very illuminating and important, but the underlying causal agencies must be separately specified (though often they are not)." what does he mean by causal agencies?
Natural Law is an old fashioned term in science. Today we tend to say Theory or System Model. Models are descriptive or predictive, not causative, unless they are embedded in technology, as in feedback control systems (e.g. rocket science).
Causal agencies unpack "IF ... THEN ..." sequences explaining WHY the antecedent causes the consequent.
I'll have to ponder that lol
It's MetaPhysics and Philosophy of Science, which are graduate level topics.
I studied a couple of years at Emory University but never got a degree. I'm hoping to transfer to University of Miami to get an undergraduate degree in physics. My dream is to use physics to understand the brain, through for example optogenetics.
I would suggest postponing this until you completed your basic undergraduate degree. Otherwise you'll just be memorizing my responses without apprehending how I constructed them.
I'm not very good at remembering things lol. And indeed I don't fully understand your answers. I'm just so curious, and I want to understand just what physics and mathematics is. I also want to write an amazing application essay lol.
It's rather pointless for you to ask questions that take me a good bit of work to respond to if 1) you don't understand the answers or how I constructed them, and 2) you have no faculty for recording and remembering the answers.
I want to be prepared for the classes and do very well. but i must say that is quite rude for you to say. my point was i'm not going to be mindlessly memorizing your answers. i do have a brain, and my understanding of physics and mathematics is slowly building. I am a precise thinker. facebook also allows me to keep the conversation and look up past answers.
however, i will say that I have to be able to do the math
If you have a brain then you can do the research to learn the underlying science and figure these things out for yourself instead of being a lazy jerk who asks me to do your research, study, and thinking for you, especially since you then tell me you have no way to understand, retain, or make use of my answers. That's not only a rude intrusion, it's obnoxious.
Please take this entire PM, verbatim, and repost it on your own FB TimeLine.
why? I'm sorry you feel that way. I did enjoy chatting with you, and i valued your answers. and it hurts me for you say those things especially when i respect you and your education and wisdom. i have been doing research and a lot of reading, but i'm not a genius like a ramanujan, and i thought it would help to ask questions of scientists. i'm also sorry that i said my memory is poor. it is quite poor i'm afraid thanks to a disorder, i meant no disrespect. i was trying to say that i don't mindlessly memorize that's all.
Please take this entire PM, verbatim, and repost it on your own FB TimeLine.
Why?
Consider it a science experiment to test your working hypothesis.
I mean I think I asked thoughtful questions.
and two other physicists have been answering my questions...
Is that your hypothesis?
I recommend (nay, urge) you to post all three chats on your public FB TimeLine.
I think it would be better if you shared it on your timeline. i'm interested to see what your intelligent friends think of it.
It doesn't belong on my TimeLine. It belongs on yours. If you decline to post it on yours, I will do the work for you one last time.
please share what was wrong with my questions.you are really hurting me.
What's wrong with them is that they are posted in three private chats instead of on your public TimeLine.
do you think i don't have what it takes to be a scientist? am i an idiot?
I think you are too lazy to do your own work.
I did not realize I was doing that, I apologize. I thought my questions were thoughtful, i was mistaken. also, I find it's hard to get straight forward answers about physics or mathematics online. please don't post it on my wall, i think i understand and i don't want to embarass my self. but feel free to post it on your wall, i would like to get objective views.
It's too late. I have begun the process of publically posting this thread on your TimeLine.
do you have any decency? please post it on your wall.
I plan to do what I told you I intended to do.
You are a very strange person indeed. You seem to have a combination of asperger's syndrome with rigid "logic" and also psychopathic tendencies.
perhaps the asperger's means you have no empathy.
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I see you are also a coward.
Robert Adam Rosenwald
why are you messing with me?
You asked me to educate you. I am now educating you.
As you wished.
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John Eden characterizes your practice as "Yin Agression." You can research that, if you like. I had never heard the term before.
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