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Re:What’s Going on During Wave Function ‘Collapse’ by lisper on Friday July 05, 2019 @12:17PM (#20363662)
It is legitimate to ask how our everyday perceptions can be so radically and fundamentally different from what the math appears to say about the nature of reality. "Shut up and calculate" is not a legitimate answer.

(For the record, the phrase "Shut up and calculate" was coined by David Mermin as a pejorative characterization of the Copenhagen interpretation, which actually says simply that we cannot know anything more than what the math says, and that's just the way it is, and any attempt at further inquiry is doomed to fail and therefore should not be attempted. It's a deeply unscientific attitude.)

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Re:What’s Going on During Wave Function ‘Collapse’ by charlieflowers on Sunday July 07, 2019 @08:41PM (#20379021)
I read statements from Feynman that I interpreted as very similar. He said things like: the question "what is the underlying reality behind all this" probably "has no meaning." I never understood what he was trying to say.
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