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Can sheaf-theory help interpret Quantum Mechanics?
The Copenhagen interpretation posits a boundary in the World between the observer and the non-observer (that is the rest of the World). There is knowledge (Observables measured) associated with each ...
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Has there been any success in using modal logic to interpret Quantum Mechanics?
Quantum Mechanics rather famously has problems in interpretation - straightforward realism doesn't appear to work. Is there any work with modal logic that throws light on this question?
The SEP has ...
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What would a quantum interpretation without ontology be like?
Luboš Motl keeps insisting quantum mechanics invalidates ontology, and has made ontology obsolete, just like phlogiston. What would metaphysics without ontology look like, where words like "existence" ...
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What do Philosophers think about the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics?
One of the interpretations of quantum mechanics is the Many Worlds Interpretation which basically states that the universe as a whole develops like an unobserved quantum system, and any observation ...
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What are the philosophical implications of the Higgs mechanism in theoretical physics?
The higgs mechanism is a mechanism by which gives gauge bosons their mass, by absorbing the goldstone bosons appearing in the goldstone theorem. I found this mechanism very mathematically beautiful, ...
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Does thermal time hypothesis finally resolve Zeno's paradox?
Is Time Just A Trick Of The Mind? (read article)
Carlo Rovelli, one of the founder of Loop Quantum Gravity theory likes to think so. Furthermore wikipedia entry highlights:
This position has lead ...
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Are there many links from ancient philosophers to quantum mechanics? [closed]
After doing some research on Heraclitus, I noticed that a few of his views are very compatible with quantum mechanics. For example, he is paraphrased as writing:
Into the same river we both step ...
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philosophy of quantum mechanics
I am fascinated about the implications of quantum mechanics to philosophy. Where can I find good references to the philosophy of quantum mechanics, and its implications for realism/antirealism, ...
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Does quantum mechanics suggest that our scientific method is flawed?
Some quantum mechanics experiments seem to suggest that our current understanding of reality is flawed.
Entanglement experiments show us that particles separated in space, can still somehow ...
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Do ego-asymmetric theories invalidate the scientific method?
Suppose there is a physical theory that predicts that the observable physical laws differ when applied to the observer himself rather than to the other people, for any given observer.
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Is new kind of progress possible? [closed]
From the ancient ages the technological progress and industrial development allowed people to satisfy more and more of their needs: produce enough food, allow to buy cars, computers, and other things, ...
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Is scientific method applicable to quantum mechanics? [closed]
In my opinion natural science is a collectivist tool of research, invented to improve human's ability to understand nature. Science gives people two main advantages which are impossible with other ...
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In which way does quantum mechanics disprove determinism?
I've heard this pop up in a discussion with my physicist/engineer roommates, but didn't care to ask at the time. Now I'm mighty curious about it. Wikipedia doesn't really seem to say much on this ...
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How does physics apply to philosophy? [closed]
A friend of mine keeps trying to convince me that within quantum mechanics there are deep philosophies. I must admit I'm lost, I saw "what the bleep do we know" and find the experiments interesting ...
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Can a lack of knowledge or understanding invalidate a positive claim?
Consider the example of causal determinism. It can be phrased in many ways, all with identical meaning:
- The idea that "every event, including human cognition and behavior, decision and action, is ...
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Are there, or could there theoretically be, any confirmed cases of epiphenomenalism?
In philosophy of mind, epiphenomenalism is a form of dualism (the view that the body and the soul are made of two different substances), where it it said that the physical fully dictates the ...
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Free Will Theorem
Has the Free Will Theorem of Conway and Kochen been taken seriously by the philosophical community; is compatibilism still considered a valid approach to free will?
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What are the philosophical implications of the uncertainty principle?
What, if any, are the major philosophical consequences of the uncertainty principle?
Wikipedia describes the principle this way:
[T]he principle implies that it is impossible to simultaneously ...
