Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics

Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics by phayes on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @07:23PM (#19315457)

"Both monism and many worlds can be avoided, but only when one either changes the formalism of quantum mechanics—typically in ways that are in conflict with Einstein’s theory of special relativity—or if one understands quantum mechanics not as a theory about nature but as a theory about knowledge: a humanities concept rather than science."

Tut-tut. There's nothing "humanities rather than science" about the understanding that QM is 'just' probability theory

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0601158 https://terrytao.wordpress.com/tag/noncommutative-probabilit... https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0002049 https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/quantum+probability

applied to mechanics (and interpreted sensibly, as it is in any 'neo-Copenhagen' or 'pragmatist' interpretation). Grandiose and/or bizarre 'psiontology' is easily avoided.

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Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics by natalyarostova on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @07:25PM (#19315470)

Saying a physical phenomena is 'humanities rather than science' is such a stupid statement. Reality is just a complex computer.

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Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics by colordrops on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @12:59AM (#19316680)

> Reality is just a complex computer.

> stupid statement.

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Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics by natalyarostova on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @12:55PM (#19320969)

Humanities is distinct from science, to the extent that it's information generated by a specific life-form (humans), and is specific to our specific language and hardware we evolved and implemented.

Studying a great novel, or moral dilemmas, are ultimately about how we process, transmit, and infer information generated by other humans, and shared through extremely high-dimensional, but less structured, contexts, such as language, novels, literature, etc.

To say a physics phenomena is more 'humanities' is a strange statement, and it's hard to understand what they are getting at.

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Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics by colordrops on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @03:49PM (#19322616)

I'm just referring to the statement that "reality is just a complex computer". That's nonsense.

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Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics by natalyarostova on Thursday March 07, 2019 @06:42PM (#19333796)

Is it tho? It's so far the best model we have of how ~reality~ forms and molds around us.

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Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics by colordrops on Thursday March 07, 2019 @09:39PM (#19334658)

> It's so far the best model we have

Is it? According to who?

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