Dear Professor Tsirelson,

I found the following excerpt from your 1994 paper [Ref. 1, p. 8]:

"A theory proving our reality (absolute, for any Other) from first principles has to contain an exact definition of "our reality" in terms of first principles. This, and not the certitude of our existence, is what is important to obtain. Unfortunately, we cannot obtain it from quantum theory."

I fully agree. Please see the Holon at

http://members.aon.at/chakalov/faq.html

Since our knowledge is relational, the definition of "our reality",  [R] , requires *something else*,  [non-R] , with respect to which we can define  [R]  from first principles. But how could we draw the border between  [R]  and  [non-R] ?

I'm wondering if you would agree with the notion of 'numerically finite but physically unattainable boundaries' of our reality  [R] ,

http://members.aon.at/chakalov/Magueijo.html

http://members.aon.at/chakalov/Planat.html

http://members.aon.at/chakalov/Nottale.html#reply

What lies "behind" these boundaries is a special state of the whole universe as ONE, denoted with  [non-R] . It is the "last" Holon which should be devoid from any concrete physical content,

http://members.aon.at/chakalov/chakalov.htm#1

Just a geometrical point 'now' along the putative universal time arrow,

http://members.aon.at/chakalov/Zeh.html#note

We may call this "point" God [John 1:1-4], but that's a bit different story.

BTW I noticed your interest in the so-called quantum computing,

http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~tsirel/Research/qcomp/main.html

Please see

http://members.aon.at/chakalov/Steane.html#reply

I'm glad you managed to escape from USSR, and wish you all the best.

Respectfully yours,

Dimi Chakalov
http://members.aon.at/chakalov
--
Dead matter makes quantum jumps; the living-and-quantum matter is smarter.
 

Reference

[Ref. 1] Boris Tsirelson, This non-axiomatizable quantum theory: From Hilbert's sixth problem to the recent viewpoint of Gell-Mann and Hartle, IHES/M/94/2,
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~tsirel/prepr.html

PDF file at
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~tsirel/Research/Recent/nonaxio.pdf