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> I get really suspicious when I see quantum physics used in this way. It seems like a misdirection. Because it is. It is the usual physics-inspired pseudophil
by onli 11y ago
> I get really suspicious when I see quantum physics used in this way. It seems like a misdirection.
Because it is. It is the usual physics-inspired pseudophilosophical blabla without any real grounding in philosophy, physics or intelligent thought. It caters to the "intellectual" esoteric wishing for a meta-universe, for some kind of god, for something apart from reality. It is rubbish, and on the same level as the ted-talk of the lunatic claiming to have found the perpetuum mobile and faster than light travel thanks to some circle-based mathematics given to him by his enlightened professor.
At the same time funny, sad and highly annoying if it comes up on places like here.
- acqq 11y agoSomebody can also check who this "scientist" really is. Those making such claims often represent themselves as much more qualified than they really are. The claims in the article are annoyingly unscientific.
- JackFr 11y agoYou can too if you have access to a "web-browser". His PhD is from MIT, and he's been a full professor at UC Irvine for 25+ years, publishing pretty continuously. Lots of papers online.
- acqq 11y agoI haven't had the time before. And I stand to my claims. Searching for his CV didn't help: now I forced me through both his CV and this article. He didn't study physics but "Computational Psychology."(1) And sadly it shows: Everything "quantum" he mentions in the article is simply invalid, easy to see for anybody with enough knowledge of physics. Quantum randomness occurs on different scales than where he tries to involve it. Where he doesn't involve "quantum" the claims sound better. The sad part is that he certainly had the chance to consult with the physicists. Why he haven't had, of if he had, why he ignored it, I don't know. 1) http://cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/media/pdf/donald-hoffman-vita.pdf http://cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/media/pdf/donald-hoffman-vita....
- acqq 11y agoPossible correlation: the last three grants he received were from the "Faggin Foundation" which among other things writes about "A Framework for the Union of Science and Spirituality." http://www.fagginfoundation.org/articles-2/a-conceptual-framework-for-the-union-of-science-and-spirituality-2/ http://www.fagginfoundation.org/articles-2/a-conceptual-fram...