On 12 Jan 2013, at 15:45, Telmo Menezes wrote:
Hi Roger,
Sure, neither do I.
But if you preform the double slit experience you will see physical
wave-like patters of interference. If it quacks like a duck...
I'm not a materialist and I have no problem with the idea of the
physical world being a dream. But I also believe that all
experiences are equally real, including dreams. Including the
literal dreams we have when we sleep. So I believe in the physical
world without being a materialist.
And that follows from the comp (or weakened) assumption. But then the
physical can be redefined, as many things remains physical, even if
not fundamentally so. In that case the quantum waves are physical, as
they have observable effects. They are as much physical than particles
and planets.
I am not sure that Roger is open to conceive a dream form of
idealism (itself relying only on arithmetic).
Also, with comp, you can always recover a form of local physicalism,
by lowering the substitution level. Comp entails (I think) that we can
lower down the substitution level ad infinitum, so ~ comp is
guarantied to remain consistent for ever.
Bruno
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net
wrote:
Hi Telmo Menezes
I don't pretend to be a physicist, but I do know that
quantum waves are probability functions. There are
the radius and time t in the Schroedinger equation,
so there must be some correpondence to the physical world,
but nothing physical is waving.
So suppose we have a physical box. The probability
waves have to conform to the dimensions of the box, but
they are ghost-like waves of probability.
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]
1/12/2013
Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen
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From: Telmo Menezes
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Time: 2013-01-12, 07:01:01
Subject: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects
Theory
Hi Roger,
How can you have a wave without some notion of spatial/temporal
dimensions?
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi everything-list,
I don't believe that Descartes would accept the MWI.
Here's why:
I think that the ManyWorldsInterpretation of QM is incorrect,
due to the mistaken notion (IMHO) that quantum waves
are physical waves, so that everything is physical and materialistic.
This seems to deny quantum weirdness observed
in the two-slit experiment. Seemingly if both the wave
and the photon are physical, there should be nothing weird
happening.
My own view is that the weirdness arises because the
waves and the photons are residents of two completely
different but interpenetrating worlds, where:
1) the photon is a resident of the physical world,
where by physical I mean (along with Descartes)
extended in space,
2) the quantum wave in nonphysical, being a resident of
the nonphysical world (the world of mind), which has no
extension in space.
Under these conditions, there is no need
to create an additional physical world, since each
can exist as aspects of the the same world,
one moving in spactime and being physical, the other, like
mind, moving simulataneously in the nonphysical world
beyond spacetime.
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]
1/12/2013
Forever is a long time, especially near the end. - Woody Allen
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