You must admit that you come across as having the one true interpretation of quantum physics when the interpretation issue is famously wide open. And ...
Truth arises as a property of a relation between mind and world. So MU is in the right here, but needs to take it a step further. The crucial thing is...
It is hard to make sense of your post. But in a general fashion, physics does make use of this kind of "projection from a higher dimension" thinking. ...
Well yes and no, because vagueness would be the ground state - in being the state "beyond categorisation". And also, in the full semiotic view, catego...
You are ignoring the fact that I said the category from which complementary distinctions originate is the third category of vagueness. All categorisat...
Incompleteness certainly has something to do with it. We know from quantum uncertainty that not every physical situation is measurable. So good luck w...
If you want to defend this particular categorical separation, go right ahead. My point is that you can only do it via some kind of dichotomistic "othe...
Which is all well and good, but then arises the question of "manifested from what"? Even Platonism demanded its chora so that imperfect reality could ...
This is the guts of it. The interpretive hang-ups arise because there is this feeling that physicalist ontology must make a sharp distinction between ...
But again, quantum mechanics is not claiming the situation to be (classically) physical. That is why it talks about probability waves and not classica...
Once we get to the cosmic scale, then things turn mathematical. We can start looking for the inescapable truths of symmetry and symmetry breaking. Tha...
Yet still, you are not saying what you mean by non-physically real. I don't particularly defend the term "probability wave" as its sounds overly concr...
But I also generalise the notion of apparatus so that the Cosmos is "an apparatus". It does have a past history that acts as a constraint on quantum i...
That's fine. So what is it in a "real but non-physical" sense? I've already explained my own view of that - which tallies broadly with modern informat...
There is plenty of "physical energy" represented in the experimental apparatus set up to make the quantum observation. So - given my contextual view o...
It may seem a subtle point, but what I said was there was no (classically-imagined) particle. There was "an evolving wave of probability of detecting ...
But again, this isn't a physical interference of the kind we imagine with classical material waves. It is the analogous "interference" of probability ...
So are you saying the two paths of an individual quantum event don't interfere due to superposition? And bear in mind that we are talking about the in...
Rather than getting upset, show that you understand what you are talking about. Again, in what way does the event by event accumulation of a twin slit...
...and you can't see how you just contradicted yourself? In the real world, every set-up is particular, and so a particularisation of the wavefunction...
You mean the pattern isn't the function of other particle histories. The pattern is simply a function of the fact the same maze, the same apparatus, i...
The issue of course is that we have no good explanation in terms of concrete commonsense notions. So you are not going to get the kind of answer you a...
The interference is from the fact that the particle can take two possible paths through the twin slits. So it is about the particle and the apparatus,...
That was another Tom in another world breaking through. By his own logic, his every possible state of belief is a real macrostate. So it hardly matter...
So I'm guessing you didn't even read that Orzel link you posted in rebuttal? I actually asked a serious question. You might have had some worthwhile p...
Not sure why entering a macro superposition state is any less magical than exiting it. The bare quantum formalism still requires its "observer", even ...
And how does that connect with what Orzel (or I) have argued? The point is that even if you step back from many actual worlds - Tegmark's parallelism ...
So it is clear Orzel indeed has you stumped because you can offer no analysis at all. But just saying "nope" is not going to get you out of the hole h...
But physics can't claim to talk directly about what is real. All it can claim is to talk in a fashion that is systematically constrained by "the evide...
Glad you think so. But I note you are avoiding saying whether you agree with his essential point. Whereas many MWI proponents get quite fundamentalist...
I think you are agreeing with me on pragmatism. And as I say, that is what comes through from Heisenberg. But also Einstein got it in that he said (in...
But what does it mean for the collapse to be real (and the wavefunction not real) in Heisenberg's Kantian view? He talks about an epistemic collapse -...
As you say, even if you go back to Bohr and Heisenberg, you can't recover some pure CI position. And perhaps I should have said pragmatist or logical ...
CI itself comes in a rainbow of variants. But the central idea in my view is that in the end what we can be sure of is that we don't know how to defin...
I'm hardly ignoring the quantum zeno effect. Remember that that too requires "perfect watching" to stop the particle ever decaying. So it is both rema...
You do realise that that makes you a super-strength pragmatist? :) You aren't thinking of yourself as a CI proponent in the "consciousness causes coll...
Yep. But then MWI seems to be an example of applying fuzzy logic interpretations to those successful mathematical formalisms. Which would be ironic. S...
That's still a triadic move. My point was that to speak about "pure experience" is already to have leapt from the monadic position of "just experienci...
But if that is so, then we are only dealing with a known unknown. And if my epistemology accepts that there can be unknown unknowns, then it is reacti...
Superheroes spell out the American Dream - transcendent individualism. So it is the logical endpoint of the romantic mythologising of the "self-made s...
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