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However, as underappreciated as it is, statistical theories are efficient maps, not territories. Quantum mechanics is a clever way to maximize knowledge and min
by SemanticStrengh 5y ago
However, as underappreciated as it is, statistical theories are efficient maps, not territories. Quantum mechanics is a clever way to maximize knowledge and minimize unknowns but in all honesty it does not represent at all reality, only a knowledge map, and therefore famous paradoxes become apparent artifacts of those leaking abstractions. Theories that have actual causal content would necessitate some explanations of what is going on, AKA hidden variables theories, however the search space is huge and the usefulness not that high.
However the double slit experiment is still a real mystery though.
If some readers have some cognitive resources to allocate though I would much prefer them to analyze this extremely underlooked paper that is the first on earth to make canonical quantization of gravity works for quantum mechanics:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9706055.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9706055.pdf
- ncmncm 5y agoA paper that spends most of its introduction on opinions about permissible modes of reasoning under social convention is starting out badly. Everything expressed may be necessary, but it would be better to come to them than to start out with them.
- SemanticStrengh 5y agoIt is needed given the strong cognitive biases at hand here e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Fallacy_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Fallacy_effect what prevent progress towards quantum gravity has more to do with social inertia than technicalities tbh.
- nh23423fefe 5y agoThis seems like an asserted distinction with no content. > statistical theories are efficient maps ... Quantum mechanics ... does not represent at all reality I don't see how this is true at all. It just seems like quibble between the difference between something being a description of a phenomenon vs something making predictions correlated with experiment. Like what is the difference. Seems like you are smuggling an assumption like, "we know reality isn't really this way" But you don't
- SemanticStrengh 5y agohttps://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10484 https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10484 More importantly this nobel paper explain the different flaws of the ontologic interpretation https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/TOPICAL-REVIEW%3A-Testing-the-limits-of-quantum-state-Leggett/4e8a67d43e4727a5a494b1be9ff8e26ba234d3fd https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/TOPICAL-REVIEW%3A-Test...