Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics

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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