As I lay bedridden this week, knocked out by my second dose of the Moderna vaccine, I decided I should blog some more half-baked ideas because what the hell?
Meanwhile, though, thousands of physicists and chemists, mathematicians, quantum computer scientists, etc. The Copenhagen Interpretation retains a place of honor as the first crutch, for decades the only crutch, and the one closest to the spirit of positivism. Note that, among those who approach the Zen state, many might still call themselves Many-Worlders or Copenhagenists or Bohmians or whateverβjust as those far along in spiritual enlightenment might still call themselves Buddhists or Catholics or Muslims or Jews or atheists or agnostics βeven though, by that point, they might have more in common with each other than they do with their supposed coreligionists or co-irreligionists.
This entry was posted on Thursday, March 4th, at pm and is filed under Metaphysical Spouting , Quantum. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site. Scott: considering your third paragraph, have you ever given any thought to quantum logics? Are things like paraconsistent logics or other multi-valued logics worth considering?
Let me also advocate an attitude that is less common. To compare classical and quantum, it is useful to have a formalism which can include both. That might be harder for deterministic classical systems, but there are presentations of classical stochastic systems which have mathematical elements very similar to QM operators, Hilbert space, path integrals. Familiarity with this is useful to distinguish issues of language from more substantive issues.
For example, lots of puzzles presumably about QM are really puzzles about the meaning of classical probability for example your point 7 would be identical, in fact more justified, if the world was described by a classical probability distribution.
