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Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I... by parton on Saturday March 18, 2023 @02:02AM (#35206553)
This is not entirely correct. I can't say on this "retrocausality" stuff in particular, but more generally in quantum foundations, there are a lot of philosophers with a very solid physics/math background who have a better understanding of quantum than most physicists. I find quantum foundations to be not very interesting personally, and I doubt it will have much relevance 20 years in the future, but some philosophers working in it are definitely worth taking seriously.
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Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I... by yesenadam on Saturday March 18, 2023 @04:36AM (#35207337)
> This is not entirely correct.

Which part? I didn't say or mean to imply philosophers are not worth taking seriously, just that philosophers are not scientists, and in particular, Huw Price is not a scientist. Uncontroversial, I would've thought. An article titled "A growing number of scientists.." that then misrepresents Price as being a scientist, is the thing that's "not entirely correct", seems to me. Maybe it did that because "A growing number of philosophers.." wouldn't have anything like the same click-appeal.

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Re:A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future I... by parton on Saturday March 18, 2023 @12:29PM (#35210435)
Scientist isn't a job title or a qualification, it's a word for someone doing science. Some philosophers working in quantum foundations deserve to be called scientists, as much as any theorist from the physics department in the field. Price may not be in this category, you certainly would know better.
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