From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: TI interpreation of QM Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:41:38 -0400
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:41:25PM -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
> Obviously, this cannot be falsified. Which invokes a significant > problem for realism.
No, no problem. I have seen you complicate lots of things by imposing your interpretation on them, and you say there are "contortions" when they are just in your mind. If it cannot be falsified, it is just in someone's mind. Real knowledge need only describe what can be measured experimentally. You speak of a problem that cannot be measured, therefore the problem is only in your mind.
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The problem you are talking about, it seems to me, results from many people feeling a strong need to "understand" or "interpret" experiments in a way that fits with their worldview (intuition, thought-processes, etc.). Possibly this is influenced by mystical beliefs that the human brain is somehow special or favored over other matter or phenomena.
But the world doesn't fit itself to your brain, it is not human-friendly. The universe just is.
This argument reminds me of the excellent Douglas Adams essay in which he imitates a puddle of water and lampoons the notion that the universe has been created for us by intelligent design. Since it fits so perfectly into its hole in the ground, the puddle assumes that hole must have been created for it.
Jon
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