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>Of course, space-time and quantum mechanics have driven additional nails in the coffin of a truly understandable world. I'd think the opposite. The fact the w
by AgentME 8y ago
>Of course, space-time and quantum mechanics have driven additional nails in the coffin of a truly understandable world.
I'd think the opposite. The fact the world can work at least as strangely as relativity and quantum mechanics suggest, and we still figured those out as much as we have so far, reassures me in our ability to figure out the world we exist in.
- simiones 8y agoWhat I meant was: quantum mechanics and relativity have shown that not only is the physical world slightly different from the kind of world our mind can picture (e.g. "mechanistic, but with the universal attraction force"), it is in fact nowhere near our built-in mechanistic model, and we can never hope to build a real intuition about the world. However, we can still hope to model and predict it more accurately than we would have ever hoped before, so there is that :)