Issue #54 ~ I’ve noticed something interesting a while ago, but I haven’t had a chance to blog about it yet. And I probably still wouldn’t have, but I was awakened from my incredibly comfortable lazy state (at least as far as blogging is concerned) by a recent Nature editorial on the interpretations of quantum physics.
Very nice article, Vlatko. Behind your dichotomy exists an even more fundamental principle, the individuation/belonging conflict, which I believe to be the common thread of physical as well as human reality. What best differentiates the researcher is to be entirely "his" vision of physics or to also belong to others, not by considering them as equivalent but by attributing a probability to each. The "complex" researcher is thus the configuration of the probabilities of all possible states of physics. This is where indeterminism becomes determinism and the world can accommodate them both.
Very nice article, Vlatko. Behind your dichotomy exists an even more fundamental principle, the individuation/belonging conflict, which I believe to be the common thread of physical as well as human reality. What best differentiates the researcher is to be entirely "his" vision of physics or to also belong to others, not by considering them as equivalent but by attributing a probability to each. The "complex" researcher is thus the configuration of the probabilities of all possible states of physics. This is where indeterminism becomes determinism and the world can accommodate them both.