On 11/19/2014 3:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
none use Positivism or any other school of philosophy because no philosophical
franchise is of the slightest help in doing what scientists want to do, figure out how
the world works.
I disagree. The collapse axiom, which is still in amost textbook, and which is used by
bad pedagog to avoid hard question, is a philosophical axiom relying on a religious
belief: the belief that there is only one physical universe, and that we are unique.
Some physicists used it as a rule of thumb, and as a way to not do philosophy, but of
course, that is eventually like a use of God-gap type of explanation.
It's more than a rule-of-thumb; it's the Born rule. Without it, there's no way to connect
wave functions to probabilities and no way to test the theory.
Brent
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