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I am not really sure what you are trying to say. Are you talking about the difference between an interpretation as a way of thinking about something and an inte
by danbruc 5y ago
I am not really sure what you are trying to say. Are you talking about the difference between an interpretation as a way of thinking about something and an interpretation as describing what something really is?
It's like people who accept that general relativity specifies curved space, understand the implications but are still expecting to somehow find a higher dimensional space that all this is suspended in 'cause that's what a fundamental reality feels like to them.
General relativity works just fine without an embedding space but there still could be one. Not that you should think about it in this way without good reasons but only because it is more intuitive. But in the case of quantum mechanics we do - at least that is what I think - understand things so poorly that it is hard to judge what one should reasonably consider while making contact with questions about the fundamental nature of things.
- joe_the_user 5y ago"Interpretation", in the way that Copenhagen and Many-worlds are called interpretation, is just a way to add human meaning to an existing formalism. Like adding the label "energy" whatever quantity in Newtonian mechanics.
- danbruc 5y agoIf many worlds is true, then there are actually countless parallel worlds, if pilot wave is true, then there is only one world. Those are metaphysical claims about the most fundamental aspects of the cosmos, I don't think it is fair to just file this under human meaning.