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I'm a bit of an idiot about the 'hard' sciences and the picture has colours with a catchy title... THIS IS HOW EASY IT IS TO GET ME TO BUY BOOKS!

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Jonesy_now | Sep 24, 2021 |
“According to Bell’s inequalities, Local Realism is violated by quantum mechanics because a photon or electron does not know whether to be a particle or a wave until the instant of measurement with the appropriate instrument, which irrevocably selects which state to manifest. Local Realism cannot be built into quantum mechanics using hidden variable to eliminate the need for information transfer to be faster than light, as is seemingly required in the delayed choice experiment.”



In “Knowledge in a Nutshell: Quantum Physics” by Sten Odenwald



“The next time you are tempted to use a crash diet, just remember that our masses, which determine our weight, are written not only in the atoms in our bones, but in their coupling to the cosmic Higgs field for which we can do nothing.”



In “Knowledge in a Nutshell: Quantum Physics” by Sten Odenwald



I remember watching a “Universidade Aberta” programme on RTP2 eons ago: black and white television, hairy men in sandals and cardigans, paper flip charts with graphs and squiggles in black marker pen, you get the picture. (Ah, the nostalgia). Does my brain live in a vat? It is that really we have no choice but to work within our perceived reality, but with the acceptance that it might be completely wrong. To do otherwise is certain failure to find true knowledge balanced against possible success.

Seldom has it been so necessary to discern what we know from what we are simply told, yet seldom have people had so little of this skill. If people came out of school with just this one ability, I would have much greater faith in humanity's future. The scope (I would not say the depth) of what it is required for an individual in the West to know (on an average day, for ex.) has, it seems, increased. We have no choice but to believe what we are 'told' in many of these areas; real skill acquisition would simply take too long. Thanks to the internet our capacity for checking facts has vastly increased. Whether people actually do that is a different matter, but at least they could!

A paradox (from paradoxon – contrary opinion) that was, of course, identified by Socrates (or Plato, perhaps since Socrates, even more than the rest of us, may never have existed) over 2000 years ago, though perhaps without Zagzebski's proofs: I know nothing and know that I know nothing. In a way, the whole edifice of Quantum Physics (and Philosophy in a sense) seems to revolve around it, culminating in Kant's critique of reason – following it to its limits always brings you to paradoxes – and Hegel's assertion that the contradictions are not just at the limits of reason and knowledge, but fundamental to the structure of reality itself – just one of the places at which we find total doubt about knowledge of the nature of things become systematised and converted into total certainty about their nature. Heraclitus’ Panta Rhei, so to speak, to go back even further than Socrates.

For events and individual actions regarding Quantum Physics, the ability to retrace one's steps and replicate the action a second time after reading a book like this without knowing a single thing about its subject, can help confirm the reality of both, and eliminate the possibility of them being a construct within The Matrix… to evaluate information or evidence *within* this possibly quantum physical world which we appear to inhabit, strikes me as the far more interesting use of epistemology. Applied epistemology, if you like. But then again, I am probably just a philistine.

Pierre Klossowski's “Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle” and Odenwald’s “Knowledge in a Nutshell: Quantum Physics” are revealing on the 'simulacra' aspect of the 'apparent' physical world.
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