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I agree that 'observer' is a poor choice of words in Rovelli's interpretation. That's why in some of my former posts I preferred the more general word...

Yeah! Bohr's IMO was not an ontological position. And yet, 'Copenaghen Interpretation' is often used to denote one. I agree with this. Maybe Wigner hi...

Thank you :blush:

You're welcome. Anyway, I am not @"noAxioms", but I believe that his point was not 'nihilistic'. Basically, according to RQM you can only define a sta...

I am definitely very ignorant about Information Theory, but I believe that the status of 'Shannon information' is somewhat controversial. The point is...

You're definitely welcome. I can understand the unease with Bitbol's approach. But note that consciousness in his interpretation does not 'do' anythin...

There is an ambiguity in 'Copenaghen Interpretation' (CI) that creates endless debates like this one :smile: In CI, measurements are explained via the...

Same impression! Ok, thanks! I think I'll revise GR and cosmology. I admittedly do not know very much about both. :up: I agree! I would add the 'no si...

Thank you very much for the transcription! :up: Yeah, I'd agree. Both the representionalist and the non-representionalist views are possible. Rovelli ...

I actually thought about it but, unfortunately, I did not arrive at a satisfying conclusion. Ok, that's right. Maybe the point is that the foliation i...

Thank you very much! Actually in the article I linked, there is in it a link to a paper by Wigner himself: https://jawarchive.files.wordpress.com/2012...

I did some further research on Wheeler. I found this article: https://plus.maths.org/content/it-bit - it quotes a paper by Wheeler himself. He certain...

I forgot to say that I actually read the article and I found it very intriguing :smile:

Thanks for the very informative answer! I need some time to think about all of this :smile:

I do not understand your point, actually. On one hand, I agree that pop-science is not always reliable. On the other hand, in this case, it seems that...

Great. Interestingly, I discovered that the same point is made by Carlo Rovelli to defend his 'relational' view, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Do you mean that some geometries in GR require such a foliation (rather than simply allow)? AFAIK, there are attempts to reconcile dBB and SR that use...

BTW, I think that the idea of a 'special role' of consciousness in QM is not really so rare among physicists themselves. See the article on Wikipedia ...

Well, I agree that a preferred frame is not actually incompatible with the predictions of Relativity. So, in this sense we can say that SR is not inco...

:up: I see! Yeah, you are right. Schwindt's paper only refutes the idea behind something like 'pure MWI', that is Hilbert space without any structure ...

Thanks for the quote! That's interesting :smile: Well, I actually one who apparently misinterpreted him (and I am very sorry for that if he never embr...

Yeah, I should have specify that :smile:

I am not Wayfarer, but I try to give an answer from a 'Kantian' or 'quasi-Kantian' viewpoint. A 'moderate correlationist' (i.e. neither 'weak' nor 'st...

I'll answer to this now. I try to answer to the rest of your post ASAP. Anyway, as I said also to AndrewM I think that the problem is even deeper. Con...

Yeah they are very good and the quote is very funny :wink: I believe that Rovelli himself treats the wave-function as not descriptive. So, he would no...

Regarding the fact that cosmology is not a 'theory of everything', I suggest this nice talk about Carlo Rovelli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzmyk...

Thank you for emphasizing that!

I agree with you here. And IMO the 'weak correlationist' does not have a problem with it. Well, I agree again :wink: I mean, 'perspectival knowledge' ...

In summary, I agree with the 'correlationist' is right in believing that all our knowledge being with our 'situated' lived experience (which is changi...

Thank you for giving this excellent counter-argument! :wink: I am too reticent to accept completely what people like Bitbol, d'Espagnat etc are positi...

Well, yeah this more or less what Rovelli says. In his pre-print 'Relational interpretation of Quantum Mechanics' (see here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/qua...

Ok! I'll try to give an explanation. In MWI, there is only a quantum system, the universe itself. Its quantum state is a vector in a Hilbert space. No...

Well, here 'freedom of choice' does not refer to 'free will'. Rather, it is a denial of Superdeterminism (the link is to Wikipedia article), that is t...

Right! And this, if confirmed, would a wonderful thing :wink: However, since all interpretations of QM give (almost) the same predictions, we cannot u...

Hi all, iI my opinion, as others have said, this experiment, by itself, does not disprove the existence of an 'objective reality' anymore than QM does...

Interesting anedocte :up: I think I mostly agree with you on this point. Removal of hatred, violent tendencies and so on from our minds is indeed a go...

Yeah, sorry that remark was not adressed to you :-)You are right, there are indeed affinities (and thank you for the suggestioni)! I had other people ...

Good point! Well, another good point. Well, I think that here there is some controversy, both in Buddhism and in Christianity. Taken literally, the pa...

I forgot to anwer to these questions, sorry! Well, independently of Buddhism or Christianity, I cannot give you a precise answer on this. To be honest...

I believe that here we should consider the duality between the "relative" and "ultimate" truth. At the "ultimate", love is non-preferential. But, at t...

Thanks for the reply. I will answer back tomorrow. Also, thank you for the links. Very interesting site, indeed. BTW, there is a scholar, prof Alexand...

You are right, to some extent. Buddhism emphasizes much more the "non-preferential" kind of love. At the same time, however, I do not think that it sp...

Well, I think that it cannot be fully communicated. Of course, as @"Wayfarer" says, it is partially communicable. However, "insight" is a transformati...

I agree in a sense! I think that our condition is "fallen", but I do not know what this "fall" is! Thank you a lot for this! I did not know that Roman...

Ok! I think it is more clear now, thanks :smile: I will certainly read with interest your more detailed explanation! Yeah, that's why I think the nega...

Finally, I am here: Yes, here you are right :up: I wanted to stress that "renunciation" is present in both traditions. But, of course, in Christianity...

Hi, thanks for raising again interesting points:-)! I am very sorry for the delay. Hopefully, I will answer later today!

Agreed, the spirit is somewhat similar (especially if one considers Mahayana Buddhism)! I want also to add that many "hard" expressions were typical i...

It's okay! No problem! I will be slower in the coming days. So, take all the time you need :smile: Thank you in advance!

I want to add another similarity between Buddhism and Christianity. Buddhism places a lot of importance on intention. In fact, intentional actions hav...