Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Should quantum anomalies make us rethink reality?

Indeed we should according to this recent Scientific American article. One thing I learned from Dennett in his new book is that according to him the scientific image uncovers an objective, underlying reality, while the manifest image is corrupted by our personal ontology. Not so according to quantum mechanics, which operates on the premise that our scientific results themselves are tied to our perceptions and constructed categories, not "a purely objective world out there." There is a paradigm shift in science itself in accepting this understanding, given quantum anomalies described in the link. It's time to update your scientific (and manifest) image Professor Dennett.

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