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Of course it has philosophical implications. The problem is that philosophers largely don't understand QM well enough to talk about them. To be fair, many physi
by nevinera 12y ago
Of course it has philosophical implications. The problem is that philosophers largely don't understand QM well enough to talk about them. To be fair, many physicists don't either.
- foldr 12y agoCould you give a specific example of such a philosopher? Or some kind of justification of the "largely"? How carefully have you examined that body of work?
- nevinera 12y ago>How carefully have you examined that body of work? Don't be ridiculous. Very few professors of philosophy would have even had enough math to read the basic expressions necessary for such understanding. I don't need to survey the literature to be confident that the significant majority of philosophers don't understand quantum mechanics, cannot explain the chemical or electrical mechanisms by which brains work, and don't understand statistics well enough to interpret experimental data. Those things require a deal of training and experience that a philosophy education is not likely to provide. There are plenty of philosophers out there that do understand any or all of those things, obviously. Did you think I was trying to claim that there are none?
- foldr 12y agoHave you read any bad papers about quantum mechanics by philosophers? You're playing the hard-headed empiricist here, so don't just speculate -- show us the data. The philosophers who write about physics usually have some training in it besides their philosophy education.