Emily Adlam
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 20 Jul
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It really is saying that the laws constrain the frequencies and requirements.
require them to have certain values.
Uh yes.
Uh so the approach uh that uh Eddie Chen and Jelly Goldstein have worked on in terms of laws is I think are very similar in spirit to m to mine.
Um, you know, indeed Eddie and I are are working on a project sort of examining some of those similarities.
Um but uh
perhaps one one difference is that um
one difference is that uh they they are inclined to think of uh those all at once constraints as a sort of fundamental primitive, uh whereas I I perhaps prefer to think of them as being a f a form of uh modal structure uh in accordance with a sort of generally structurally realist uh approach to to physics and to laws.
Um but I I don't think those views are necessarily incompatible with each other.
They're more sort of a difference of emphasis.
Uh yeah, so modal uh is a word that uh philosophers use to refer to facts about um what is possible and impossible.
modal structure, uh
Perhaps the most n uh well known example of modal structure is causal structure.
So that's one form that modal structure can take.
Um, because I don't think causation is uh fundamental.
I don't think that ha that can be the most general type of modal structure, but I do think the world has some
other kind of structure which is in some ways similar to causal structure but but perhaps more general than that.
And so that's uh where I would sort of uh expect those all at once constraints to live.
Yes, I but I think there's this sort of useful uh back and forth to be had here.
I think that modern theoretical physics has important lessons for a variety of of traditional philosophical discussions.
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