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Most physicists I have talked to would fit better into a church than the ivory tower of science.
by randomNumber7 1y ago
Most physicists I have talked to would fit better into a church than the ivory tower of science.
- jfengel 1y agoI don't doubt you, but I think you're meeting the wrong physicists. I'll admit, I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that. I suspect I also have a different idea of what church-people are like. Perhaps you could elaborate?
- randomNumber7 1y agoThe genius of what newton did (and what started the modern world I would argue) was to stop asking the question of "why" and just describe (with mathematics) the "what". It was always just a model of the world. We (humans) have defined it and it describes what we see (the experiments). Asking the question of the "truth" in a way similiar to platon and kant is religous. What is truth? We as humans can only gain knowledge from our experiences.
- dwd 1y agoSomeone like Douglas Hoffman and his Interface Theory of Perception is one that comes to mind. Anyone who advocates a panpsychist view of reality seem to be trying to create a mathematical/physics proof for the existence of a God like entity.