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"Both monism and many worlds can be avoided, but only when one either changes the formalism of quantum mechanics—typically in ways that are in conflict with Ein
by phayes 8y ago
"Both monism and many worlds can be avoided, but only when one either changes the formalism of quantum mechanics—typically in ways that are in conflict with Einstein’s theory of special relativity—or if one understands quantum mechanics not as a theory about nature but as a theory about knowledge: a humanities concept rather than science."
Tut-tut. There's nothing "humanities rather than science" about the understanding that QM is 'just' probability theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0601158 https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0601158 https://terrytao.wordpress.com/tag/noncommutative-probability/ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/tag/noncommutative-probabilit...
https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0002049 https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0002049
https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/quantum+probability https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/quantum+probability
applied to mechanics (and interpreted sensibly, as it is in any 'neo-Copenhagen' or 'pragmatist' interpretation). Grandiose and/or bizarre 'psiontology' is easily avoided.
- natalyarostova 8y agoSaying a physical phenomena is 'humanities rather than science' is such a stupid statement. Reality is just a complex computer.
- colordrops 8y ago> Reality is just a complex computer. > stupid statement.
- natalyarostova 8y agoHumanities is distinct from science, to the extent that it's information generated by a specific life-form (humans), and is specific to our specific language and hardware we evolved and implemented. Studying a great novel, or moral dilemmas, are ultimately about how we process, transmit, and infer information generated by other humans, and shared through extremely high-dimensional, but less structured, contexts, such as language, novels, literature, etc. To say a physics phenomena is more 'humanities' is a strange statement, and it's hard to understand what they are getting at.
- colordrops 8y agoI'm just referring to the statement that "reality is just a complex computer". That's nonsense.
- natalyarostova 8y agoIs it tho? It's so far the best model we have of how ~reality~ forms and molds around us.
- colordrops 8y ago> It's so far the best model we have Is it? According to who?