Lev Goldfarb

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What should be the basis of a new---as opposed to the present, numerical---understanding of nature?

We do know that over the last century the 'mathematization' of physics has taken on completely different proportions and has been accompanied by the loss of the 'physical' intelligibility. To...

11 November 2013 1,575 40 View

Have you worked (or want to work) with structural data representations? What is your experience?

Although the term "structural representation" has been around for a long time, it appears that we don't have a good grasp of what it really means and what to expect from it. This is the main...

11 November 2013 10,126 1 View

How, during the present pre-transitional period in science, do we facilitate non-incremental research (falling outside the oldstream science)?

Since we are presently at the threshold of such transitional period of unprecedented, non-incremental, changes in science, the successful resolution of this issue will facilitate the initiation of...

08 August 2013 10,065 20 View

Can we verify experimentally if all actual particle interactions are described by vertices of degree 3 or 4 as specified in Feynman diagrams?

What is the basis of the support? What is really known about the structural variety of *actual* interactions?

07 July 2013 9,604 10 View

How do you envision, if at all, the information-based physics (as simplistically suggested by the popular Wheeler's phrase "it from bit")?

FQXi is organizing its fifth essay contest “It from Bit or Bit from It” to which I submitted yesterday an essay (and it should be displayed there within ten days at which time I will replace...

05 May 2013 7,016 4 View

How many of us, among scientists, have a feeling that we are in the midst of an unrecognized but unprecedented scientific 'crisis' and are at the threshold of an unparalleled transitional period in science?

In other words, do you feel that sometimes in the next 25 years our science, as a whole, will head in a *radically* new direction? One of the main sources of the scientific 'crisis' came to the...

03 March 2013 274 15 View

Is there any evidence that different dendrites and/or axons in the same neuron may carry qualitatively (not quantitatively) different information?

We have proposed a theoretical model which might be interpreted as suggesting that individual dendrites and/or axons play qualitatively different roles.

03 March 2013 1,885 18 View

On the central inconsistency in physics: between the 'old' continuous formalism and discovered in the last century ubiquitous discreteness in Nature.

All our applied mathematics has evolved under the assumption of continuity, while all basic processes in Nature appear to be 'discrete', meaning non-continuous. (The prototypical example of...

12 December 2012 5,905 82 View

Is there a general physical (not mathematical) reason behind the conjugacy of a pair of variables in quantum mechanics?

In other words: Why (from the *physical* point of view) some pairs of variables---e.g. energy and time---are "conjugate"? Does the phrase "conjugate variables" creates a false impression of its...

12 December 2012 6,083 91 View

What is the main road leading to the development of AI and its various subfields (pattern recognition, data mining, information retrieval, etc.)?

I propose that the *only* way ahead is via a fundamentally new representational formalism that would clearly reveal what critical information has been missing from the conventional forms of data...

10 October 2012 7,436 14 View

How many of you believe in the super-transitory nature of the scientific period we are living in?

My question is not about various made up "singularities" or the present *incremental* development of natural sciences. It is about the historically unprecedented, non-incremental, impact on...

10 October 2012 5,978 6 View

What is the concept of class in your favorite learning model, e.g. in SVM, ANN, etc.?

My claim is that none of the accepted concepts of class are *adequate*. Is this situation ok? Is this ok to do classification without an adequate (central) concept of class available in the model?...

10 October 2012 8,040 8 View

Do you believe there might be a fundamentally new, structural, form of data representation which would radically transform AI, including ML / PR, data mining, and search engines?

Because the present forms of data representation---including vector space, logical, graphs, etc.---have not been uniformly useful, does it mean that, in general, there will not be a single...

10 October 2012 1,235 56 View

Have you noticed the lack of serious scientific discussions on scientific internet forums (and conferences) despite the often repeated "internet opportunities"?

More accurately, I mean not the narrow technical discussions but the discussions on the general direction of the corresponding natural science. And this is particularly conspicuous given the...

10 October 2012 1,077 15 View