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Torbill

['Member']Joined: January 22, 2017 at 22:56Last active: February 23, 2026 at 21:02None discussions7 comments

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In the section, A Matter of Taste, we see that de Broglie did local hidden variables. Von Neumann propagated the notion that hidden variables theories...
May 14, 2023 at 13:35
Yes, the Bohm interpretation doesn’t require wave-particle duality. It makes the quantum world causal. For people who don’t like the weirdness of the ...
May 13, 2023 at 17:54
It appears to me that Pas is seriously underrepresenting the work of David Bohm in the Aeon piece. Bohm, a quantum theorist, had interests in philosop...
May 13, 2023 at 05:07
“If anything can go wrong it will” is embedded in engineering culture and seems to have originated with an engineer named Murphy (Wiki). “Depressing”?...
January 22, 2023 at 06:37
The story of Phineas Gage is in all likelihood a popular delusion, repeated endlessly, including within the neuroscience community, which should know ...
January 21, 2022 at 15:08
I think that this is pretty good, and it lines up with my experience. I am an engineer who never had a hint of what philosophy was about until I had t...
December 31, 2019 at 15:45
Yeah. It’s a terribly confusing topic, but this book is well written. The author tries hard to make the key ideas clear, as well as to give a detailed...
April 13, 2018 at 13:43
Wayfarer, you might enjoy "What is Real" by Adam Becker.
April 12, 2018 at 21:38