Re: M-TH: Idealist discussion of quantum theory

[J.WALKER]

Chris,

What exactly is you concern?

I have only briefly glanced through the article and the review a few 
pages earlier. Does your possible objection lie in the fact that the 
experiment would appear to bolster Schrodinger's thought experiment 
(I am personally rather hostile to thought experiments per se) which 
as I understand it - from the few, contractory, accounts I have read 
- is an undialectical 'proof' for idealism (or possibly just 
Kantianism? Or possibly I'm wrong?)

As far as I can see the Boulder group experiment appears to be just 
an improvement of the measuring device and a new error-correction 
scheme.

My scientific background is virtually non-existant and my 
understanding of the difference between classical and quantum is 
rather vague. What is the relationship between this experiment and 
dialectics versus idealism, in simple(ish) terms?

Thanks for alterting us to this article
John

P.S. I presume from the silence that the discussion on Gramsci has 
died a death.

Chris wrote:
> This abstract from the 20 Jan 00 edition of Nature suggests there is an
> undialectical idealism in the discussion of quantum theory in the form of
> stories about "Schrödinger's cat".

> The implications of this argument about quantum theory are IMO not clear:
> whether it can still apply to non-closed systems i.e. actual reality,
> rather than an experiment with an artificially restriced number of variables. 

 


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