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Mermin put it perhaps most succinctly, that reality is "correlations without correlata", or as Ron Garret coined, the "zero-worlds interpretation"[1] It also m
by themgt 11y ago
Mermin put it perhaps most succinctly, that reality is "correlations without correlata", or as Ron Garret coined, the "zero-worlds interpretation"[1]
It also makes sense to me on a sociological level, that the way in which this interpretation seems to undermine the very foundation of western, scientific thought is the reason it has been so desperately avoided for so long, with many preferring to believe in an infinite forking (but somehow still "real) multiverse, than the idea that reality itself is intersubjective.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc
- lisper 11y agoOr if you don't want to sit through the video: http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf
- westoncb 11y agoRegarding "correlations without correlata": this feels to me like we are starting to hit on properties on our mechanism for describing/representing and confusing it with what we're trying to describe/represent. Rather than saying there's "nothing really there," couldn't it just be a property of human conceptual structure that it expresses abstract relations about abstract symbols, but there are never any 'things' that are related?