Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics
by natalyarostova on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @12:55PM
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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.
Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics
by colordrops on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @03:49PM
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I'm just referring to the statement that "reality is just a complex computer". That's nonsense.
Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics
by natalyarostova on Thursday March 07, 2019 @06:42PM
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Is it tho? It's so far the best model we have of how ~reality~ forms and molds around us.
Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics
by colordrops on Thursday March 07, 2019 @09:39PM
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> It's so far the best model we have
Is it? According to who?
> stupid statement.